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{{short description|Indo-Aryan language spoken in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal}}
{{Redirect|Rajbanshi language|the language spoken in Nepal|Rajbanshi language (Nepal)}}
{{More citations needed|date=June 2020}}
{{EngvarB|date=October 2019}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox language
| name = Rangpuri
| ethnicity = [[Rajbongshi people|Rajbongshi]], [[Bengali people|Bengali]], [[Deshi people|Deshi]], Nashya-Sheikh, Rangpuri, [[Assamese people|Assamese]]
| nativename = রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী
| states = Bangladesh, India
| region = [[North Bengal]], [[Lower Assam]]
| speakers = {{sigfig|15|2}} million
| date = 2007
| ref = e21
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]]
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]]
| fam4 = [[Eastern Indo-Aryan languages|Eastern]]
| fam5 = [[Bengali-Assamese languages|Bengali–Assamese]]
| script = [[Bengali-Assamese script]],<ref>{{harvnb|Toulmin|2009|p=72f, 89}}</ref> [[Devanagari script]]
| nation = {{IND}}
* [[West Bengal]]<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kamtapuri-rajbanshi-make-it-to-list-of-official-languages-in-bengal/1263116 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416031141/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kamtapuri-rajbanshi-make-it-to-list-of-official-languages-in-bengal/1263116 |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 April 2019 |title=Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal |last=PTI |date=28 February 2018 |work=[[Outlook India]] |access-date=8 May 2019}}</ref> (additional)
| iso3 = rkt
| glotto = rang1265
| glottorefname = Central-Eastern Kamta
}}

'''Rangpuri''' (Rangpuri: অংপুরি ''Ôṅgpuri'' or অমপুরি ''Ômpuri'') is an eastern [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]] of the [[Bengali–Assamese languages|Bengali-Assamese branch]], spoken in [[Rangpur Division]] in Bangladesh, northern [[West Bengal]] and western [[Goalpara region|Goalpara]] of [[Assam]] in India.<ref name="t09-rangpuri"/> Many are bilingual in [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Assamese language|Assamese]] in their respective regions. According to Glottolog, it forms the Central-Eastern Kamta group with the Kamta language. Together with [[Rajbanshi language (Nepal)|Rajbanshi]] and [[Surjapuri language|Surjapuri]] they form the [[KRNB lects|Kamta]] group of languages.

==Names==
Rangpuri goes by numerous names, the most common being ''Bahe'';<ref name="t09-rangpuri">"'''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{{harvcol|Toulmin|2009|p=7}}</ref> though ''Deshi bhasha'' and ''Anchalit bhasha'' is also used.<ref>"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'." {{harvcol|Toulmin|2009|p=17}}</ref>

==Comparison with related languages==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" align="center"
|-
!rowspan="2" | English !!colspan="2" | Kamarupi !! Rarhi !!colspan="3"| Vangiya
|-
!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==
{{reflist}}

==References==
{{refbegin}}
*{{citation |first=Mathew W S |last=Toulmin |title=From Linguistic to Sociolinguistic Reconstruction: The Kamta Historical Subgroup of Indo-Aryan |publisher=Pacific Linguistics | year=2009}}
* {{Cite thesis |last=Wilde |first=Christopher P. |title=A Sketch of the Phonology and Grammar of Rājbanshi |date=2008 |degree=Ph.D |publisher=University of Helsinki |url=https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/19290 |hdl=10138/19290 |hdl-access=free}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
{{incubator|code=rkt|lang=Kamtapuri}}
* [https://www.omniglot.com/writing/rangpuri.htm Rangpuri at Omniglot]
* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rkt Ethnologue Report on Rangpuri]

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{{Languages of India}}
{{Eastern Indo-Aryan languages}}

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[[Category:Languages of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Bengali dialects]]

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