Boro

E644039

Boro is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Boro people in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Boro canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
alternateName Bodo language
linked to: Bodo

Boro (Bodo)
linked to: Bodo
associatedMovement Bodo language movement
belongsToBranch Bodo–Koch branch
closelyRelatedTo Dimasa language
Garo language
Kokborok language
linked to: Kokborok
country India
endonym Boro
ethnicGroup Boro people
linked to: Bodo people
family Sino-Tibetan language family
formerWritingSystem Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script

Latin script
glottocode bodo1270
hasDialects Eastern Boro
Southern Boro
Western Boro
hasStandardVariety Standard Boro
ISO639-1 none
ISO639-2 bodo
ISO639-3 brx
languageCode brx
minorityLanguageStatus recognized minority language in Assam
nativeSpeakers Boro people
linked to: Bodo people
officialStatus associate official language in Assam (regional contexts)
official language of Bodoland Territorial Region
scheduled language of India
phonologicalFeature tonal language
primaryCountry India
region Baksa district
Bodoland Territorial Region
Chirang district
Kokrajhar district
Udalguri district
scriptAdopted Devanagari script
scriptAdoptionPeriod late 20th century
spokenIn Assam
India
northeastern India
subfamily Bodo–Garo languages
usedBy Bodo Sahitya Sabha
usedFor education in Bodo-medium schools
literature
local administration in Bodo areas
radio broadcasting
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Boro language endonym Boro
subject linked to: Boro
Shinasha alternateName Boro