Rangpuri language
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| Rangpuri | |
|---|---|
| রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী | |
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| Native to | Bangladesh, India |
| Region | North Bengal, Lower Assam |
| Ethnicity | Rajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya-Sheikh, Rangpuri, Assamese |
Native speakers | 10 million (2007)[1] |
| Bengali-Assamese script,[2] Devanagari script | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  India
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rkt |
| Glottolog | rang1272 |
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.[4] 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.
Names
Rangpuri goes by numerous names, the most common being Bahe;[4] though Deshi bhasha and Anchalit bhasha is also used.[5]
Comparison with related languages and dialects
| English | Kamarupi | Rarhi | Vangiya | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamtapuri | Standard Assamese | Standard Bengali | Sylheti Bengali | Khulnaiya Bengali | Dhakaiya Bengali | |
| I do | Muĩ korong | Moe korü̃/korönɡ | Ami kori | Ami xori | Ami kori | Ami kori |
| I am doing | Muĩ korir dhorichung | Moe kori asü̃/asöng | Ami korchhi | Ami xoriar/xorram | Ami kortisi | Ami kortasi |
| I did | Muĩ korisong | Moe korisü̃/korisöng | Ami korechhi | Ami/xorsi | Ami korsi | Ami korsi |
| I did (perfective) | Muĩ korilung | Moe korilü̃/korilöng | Ami korlam | Ami xorlam | Ami kôrlam | Ami kôrlam |
| I did (distant) | Muĩ korisilung | Moe korisilü̃/korisilong | Ami korechhilam | Ami xorslam | Ami korsilam | Ami korsilam |
| I was doing | Muĩ koria asilung | Moe kori asilü̃/asilöng | Ami korchhilam | Ami xorat aslam | Ami kortesilam | Ami kortasilam |
| I will do | Muĩ korim | Moe korim | Ami korbo | Ami xormu | Ami kormu/korbani | Ami kormu |
| I will be doing | Muĩ koria thakim | Moe kori thakim | Ami korte thakbo | Ami xorat taxmu | Ami korti thakmu/thakbani | Ami korte thakmu |
Notes
- ^ Rangpuri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ Toulmin 2009, p. 72f, 89
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "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)
- ^ "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
- Toulmin, Mathew W S (2009), From Linguistic to Sociolinguistic Reconstruction: The Kamta Historical Subgroup of Indo-Aryan, Pacific Linguistics
- Wilde, Christopher P. (2008). A Sketch of the Phonology and Grammar of Rājbanshi (Ph.D thesis). University of Helsinki. hdl:10138/19290.
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