Rajbanshi language
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| Rajbanshi | ||
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| Spoken in: | India, Bangladesh, Nepal | |
| Total speakers: | 2,982,280 | |
| Language family: | Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indic (Indo-Aryan) Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Rajbanshi |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
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The Rajbanshi language is spoken by 2,982,280 people according to a 1991 census report in Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Malda, Murshidabad; Assam, Goalpara District; Bihar and Purnia District, India. The language is also spoken in Bangladesh and Nepal.
Other names of the language are Kamtapuri, Rajbangsi, Rajbansi, Rajbongshi, Tajpuri.
[edit] Dialects
The main dialects are Western Rajbanshi, Central Rajbanshi and Eastern Rajbanshi.
The central dialect has majority of speakers and is quite uniform; it is used in publications. The western dialect has more diversity. Lexical similarity is 77% to 89% between dialects, 48% to 55% with Hindi, 43% to 49% with Nepali.
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