Mal Paharia language
Not to be confused with Malto language.
| Mal Paharia | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Jharkhand; West Bengal |
| Ethnicity | Mal Paharia |
Native speakers | c. 51,000 (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mkb |
| Glottolog |
malp1246[3] |
Mal Paharia is a language spoken by 51,000 of 110,000 ethnic Mal Paharia in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal in India, and possibly in Bangladesh. It has been variously regarded as a Bengali–Assamese language, a dialect of Malto, and a mixed Dravidian–Indo-Aryan language. There is a positive attitude amongst speakers of the language, and the language health is considered vigorous. Nonetheless, some speakers have shifted to Bengali.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mal Paharia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Masica, Colin P. (1993), The Indo-Aryan Languages, Cambridge Language Surveys, Cambridge University Press, pp. 26–27, ISBN 0521299446
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mal Paharia". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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