Rangpuri language

Rangpuri
রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী
Native toBangladesh, India
RegionNorth Bengal, Lower Assam
EthnicityRajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya-Sheikh, Rangpuri, Assamese
Native speakers
10 million (2007)[1]
Bengali-Assamese script[3]
Official status
Official language in
 India
Language codes
ISO 639-3rkt
Glottolograng1272
Map of Rangpuri speaking areas of South Asia
Rangpuri is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [5]

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.[6] 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.

A girl reciting a poem in Rangpuri
  1. ^ Rangpuri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ Toulmin 2009, p. 72f, 89
  4. ^ "Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal". Outlook India. PTI. 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Ethnologue: Language rkt". Ethnologue. SIL International. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference t09-rangpuri was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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