Sunday, April 3, 2016

Language, dialects and alphabet

Language, dialects and alphabet
Rangpuri
[rkt] Rajshahi division: Joypurhat area; Rangpur division: Dinajpur, Gaibanda, Lalmonihat, Nilphamari, Panchagar, Rangpur, and Thakurgaon districts. 10,000,000 in Bangladesh (2007 SIL). L2 users: 325,000 in Bangladesh (2015 SIL). Total users in all countries: 15,325,000 (as L1: 15,000,000; as L2: 325,000). Status: 5 (Developing).Used in the market and for commerce, media, and travel by nearly all minority language speakers in the greater Rangpur-Dinajpur area. Rangpuri has reportedly been spoken in the area for centuries. Alternate Names: Anchalit Bangla, Bahe Bangla, Kamta, Polia. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Eastern, Bengali-Assamese.


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