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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Rabha<br />
| altname = Rába katha<br />
| nativename = ৰাভা<br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| region = [[Assam]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
| ethnicity = <br />
| speakers = 139,986<br />
| date = 2011 census<br />
| ref = e18<br />
| familycolor = Sino-Tibetan<br />
| fam2 = [[Sal languages|Brahmaputran]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Bodo–Garo languages|Bodo–Garo]]<br />
| fam4 = [[Koch languages|Koch]]<br />
| dia1 = Maituri<br />
| dia2 = Rongdani<br />
| script = [[Assamese alphabet|Assamese script]], [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali script]]<br />
| iso3 = rah<br />
| glotto = rabh1238<br />
| glottorefname = Rabha<br />
}}<br />
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'''Rabha''' is a [[Sino-Tibetan languages|Sino-Tibetan language]] of [[India]]. The two dialects, Maituri and Rongdani, are divergent enough to cause problems in communication. According to U.V. Joseph,<ref>Joseph, U.V. 2000. ''Rabha–English dictionary khúrangnala''. Guwahati: Don Boco Publications.</ref> there are three dialects, viz. Róngdani or Róngdania, Mayturi or Mayturia and Songga or Kocha (page ix). Joseph writes that "the Kocha dialect, spoken along the northern bank of the [[Brahmaputra]], is highly divergent and is not intelligible to a Róngdani or Mayturi speaker" (page ix). Joseph also writes that "[t]he dialect variations between Róngdani and Mayturi, both of which are spoken on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra, in the Goalpara district of [[Assam]] and belong to the northern slopes of Meghalaya, are minimal" (pages ix-x). He concludes the paragraph on dialectal variation with: "The Róngdani-Mayturi dialectal differences become gradually more marked as one moves further west" (page x).<br />
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In 2007, U.V. Joseph published a grammar of Rabha with Brill in their series Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.<ref>Joseph, U.V. 2007. ''Rabha''. Leiden: Brill.</ref><br />
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==Geographical distribution==<br />
According to the ''[[Ethnologue]]'', Rabha is spoken in the following areas of India.<br />
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*[[Darrang district]], [[Goalpara district]], and [[Kamrup district]], western [[Assam]]<br />
*[[Nagaland]]<br />
*[[Jalpaiguri district]] and [[Alipurduar district]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
*[[Tufanganj subdivision]], [[Koch Bihar district]]<br />
*[[East Garo Hills district]] and [[West Garo Hills district]], [[Meghalaya]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Rabha people]]<br />
* [[Rabha Hasong Autonomous Council]]<br />
* [[Rabha Baptist Church Union]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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{{Sino-Tibetan languages}}<br />
{{Sal languages}}<br />
{{Languages of Northeast India}}<br />
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[[Category:Sal languages]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Languages of Assam]]<br />
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