Rangpuri language

E913079

Rangpuri language is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in parts of Bangladesh and India, especially around the Rangpur region, and is closely related to Bengali and Assamese.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
closelyRelatedTo Assamese language
linked to: Assamese

Bengali language
linked to: Bengali
ethnicGroup Rajbanshi people
Rangpuri people
glottocode rang1265
hasAlternativeName Bahe Bangla
Deshi Bhasha
Kamtapuri (in some classifications)
linked to: Kamtapuri

Rajbanshi (eastern variety)
Rangpuri
Rangpuri Bangla
Rangpuriya
linked to: Rangpuri

Rangpurī
hasDialects Rangpuri dialects
hasLinguisticFeature phonology similar to Bengali–Assamese languages
shares vocabulary with Assamese
shares vocabulary with Bengali
hasNeighboringVariety Kamtapuri language
Western Rajbanshi
linked to: Rajbanshi language
ISO639-3Code rkt
languageFamily Eastern Indo-Aryan
Indo-Aryan
Indo-European
Indo-Iranian
mutualIntelligibility partially mutually intelligible with Assamese
partially mutually intelligible with Bengali
region Cooch Behar district
linked to: Cooch Behar

Goalpara region
linked to: Goalpara district

Jalpaiguri district
linked to: Jalpaiguri

Rangpur Division
spokenIn Assam
Bangladesh
Bihar
India
Jharkhand
Rangpur region
linked to: Rangpur Division

northern Bangladesh
northern West Bengal
status minority language
regional language
subclassOf Bengali–Assamese language group
Indo-European language
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script

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Rangpur Division hasRegionalLanguage Rangpuri language
Rangpur localDialect Rangpuri Dialect
linked to: Rangpuri language
Dinajpuri dialect closelyRelatedTo Rangpuri language
Dinajpuri dialect overlapsWith Rangpuri dialect continuum
linked to: Rangpuri language
Rajbanshi people primaryLanguage Rangpuri language