Rangpuri language
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Rangpuri | |
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রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী | |
Native to | Bangladesh, India |
Region | North Bengal, Lower Assam |
Ethnicity | Rajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya-Sheikh, Rangpuri, Assamese |
Native speakers | 15 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 | rang1265 |
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[edit]
Rangpuri goes by numerous names, the most common being Bahe;[4] though Deshi bhasha and Anchalit bhasha is also used.[5]
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English | Kamarupi | Rarhi | Vangiya | |||
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Kamtapuri | Standard Assamese | Standard Bengali | Sylheti | Khulnaiya | Dhakaiya | |
I do | Muĩ korong | Moe korü̃/korönɡ | Ami kori | Mui/Ami xorí | Ami kori | Ami kori |
I am doing | Muĩ korir dhorichung | Moe kori asü̃/asöng | Ami korchhi | Mui/Ami xoriar/xorram | Ami kortisi | Ami kortasi |
I did | Muĩ korisong | Moe korisü̃/korisöng | Ami korechhi | Mui/Ami xor(i)si | Ami korisi | Ami korsi |
I did (perfective) | Muĩ korilung | Moe korilü̃/korilöng | Ami kôrlam | Mui/Ami xorlam | Ami korlam | Ami korlam |
I did (distant) | Muĩ korisilung | Moe korisilü̃/korisilong | Ami korechhilam | Mui/Ami xors(i)lam | Ami korilam | Ami korsilam |
I was doing | Muĩ koria asilung | Moe kori asilü̃/asilöng | Ami korchhilam | Mui/Ami xorat aslam | Ami kortilam | Ami kortasilam |
I will do | Muĩ korim | Moe korim | Ami korbo | Mui/Ami xormu | Ami korbani | Ami kormu |
I will be doing | Muĩ koria thakim | Moe kori thakim | Ami korte thakbo | Mui/Ami xorat táxmu | Ami korti thakbani | Ami korbar thakmu |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Rangpuri at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "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[edit]
- 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.