Garo language
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| Garo | ||
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| Spoken in: | India and Bangladesh | |
| Region: | Meghalaya, Assam, Bangladesh | |
| Total speakers: | 677,000
575,000 in India (1997); 102,000 in Bangladesh (1993) |
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| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Kamarupan Bodo-Garo Garo |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Meghalaya (India) | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sit | |
| ISO 639-3: | grt | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Garo is the language of the majority of the people of the Hills which bear their name in the state of Meghalaya of India. The script used is the Roman script. Garo has a close affinity to Bodo, the language of one of the dominant communities of he neighbouring state of Assam.
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[edit] Dialects
A'beng (A'bengya, Am'beng), A'chick (A'chik), A'we, Chisak, Dacca, Ganching, Kamrup, Matchi. The Achik dialect predominates among several inherently intelligible dialects. The Abeng dialect is in Bangladesh. Closest to Koch.
[edit] Statistics
Garo(Garrow, Mande);575,000 in India (1997). 102,000 in Bangladesh (1993).Population total all countries: 677,000.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- The Ethnologue, 13th Edition, Barbara F. Grimes, Editor, 1996, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.
