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Rangpuri language

Rangpuri language

Indo-Aryan language spoken in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal

"Rajbanshi language" redirects here. For the language spoken in Nepal, see Rajbanshi language (Nepal).

Rangpuri (Rangpuri: অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri or অমপুরি Ômpuri) is an eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, northern West Bengal and western Goalpara of Assam in India.[5] Many are bilingual in Bengali and Assamese in their respective regions. According to Glottolog, it forms the Central-Eastern Kamta group with the Kamta language. Together with Rajbanshi and Surjapuri they form the Kamta group of languages.

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Names

Rangpuri goes by numerous names, the most common being Bahe;[5] though Deshi bhasha and Anchalit bhasha is also used.[6]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Rangpuri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    Toulmin, Mathew W S (2006). Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan (PhD). The Australian National University. p. 305.
  3. [3]
    Toulmin 2009, p. 72f, 89
  4. [4]
    PTI (28 February 2018). "Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Rangpuri: This term is favoured in the Rangpur area, interchangeably with ‘Bahe.’ Chaudhuri (1939) prefers to use Rangpuri to Rajbanshi, as it avoids the problem of being caste-centric." H(Toulmin 2009:7)
  6. [6]
    "Rangpur, the headquarters of a district in Bangladesh. During this first stage of research, data were collected with speakers at several sites outside the town perimeter (cf. Appendix C of Toulmin 2006). Speakers of this area refer to their mother tongue as either 'Bahe,' 'Rangpuri,' 'Deshi bhasha' or its synonym 'Anchalit bhasha' meaning 'the local language'." (Toulmin 2009:17)

References

Kamtapuri test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
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