Rangpuri language
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal
title: "Rangpuri language" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["eastern-indo-aryan-languages", "languages-of-bangladesh", "languages-of-west-bengal", "bengali-dialects", "kamtapur"] description: "Indo-Aryan language spoken in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangpuri_language" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Indo-Aryan language spoken in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Rangpuri |
| image | Rajbanshi Rangpuri Kamatapuri.svg |
| map | Rangpuri Language Map 20250130004835.png |
| mapcaption | Map of Rangpuri speaking areas of South Asia |
| map2 | Lang Status 80-VU.svg |
| mapcaption2 | {{center |
| {{small | Rangpuri is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger {{Cite web |
| ethnicity | Rajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya Shaikh, Assamese |
| nativename | রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী |
| states | Bangladesh, India |
| region | North Bengal, Lower Assam |
| speakers | million |
| date | 2007 |
| ref | e26 |
| familycolor | Indo-European |
| fam2 | Indo-Iranian |
| fam3 | Indo-Aryan |
| fam4 | Eastern |
| fam5 | Odia–Bengali–Assamese |
| fam6 | Bengali–Assamese |
| fam7 | Kamrupa |
| fam8 | Kamta |
| fam9 | Central–Eastern Kamta |
| script | Bengali-Assamese script |
| nation | |
| * West Bengal{{Cite magazine | url |
| iso3 | rkt |
| glotto | rang1272 |
| glottorefname | Rangpuri (Bangladesh) |
| :: |
| name = Rangpuri | image = Rajbanshi Rangpuri Kamatapuri.svg | map = Rangpuri Language Map 20250130004835.png | mapcaption = Map of Rangpuri speaking areas of South Asia | map2 = Lang Status 80-VU.svg | mapcaption2 = {{center| Rangpuri is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}} | ethnicity = Rajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya Shaikh, Assamese | nativename = রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী | states = Bangladesh, India | region = North Bengal, Lower Assam | speakers = million | date = 2007 | ref = e26 | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = Indo-Iranian | fam3 = Indo-Aryan | fam4 = Eastern | fam5 = Odia–Bengali–Assamese | fam6 = Bengali–Assamese | fam7 = Kamrupa | fam8 = Kamta | fam9 = Central–Eastern Kamta | script = Bengali-Assamese script | nation =
- West Bengal (additional) | iso3 = rkt | glotto = rang1272 | glottorefname = Rangpuri (Bangladesh) Rangpuri (Rangpuri: অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri or অমপুরি Ômpuri) is an eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, northern West Bengal and western Goalpara of Assam in India. Many are bilingual in Bengali and Assamese in their respective regions. According to Glottolog, it forms the Central-Eastern Kamta group with the Kamta language. Together with Rajbanshi and Surjapuri, they form the Kamta group of languages.
Names
Rangpuri goes by numerous names, the most common being Bahe, though Deshi bhasha and Anchalit bhasha are also used.
Comparison with related languages and dialects
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| English | Kamarupi | Rarhi | Vangiya | Kamtapuri | Standard Assamese | Standard Bengali | Sylheti | Khulnaiya Bengali | Dhakaiya Bengali |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I do | Muĩ korong | Moe korü̃/korönɡ | Ami kori | Ami/Mui xorí | Ami kori | Ami kori | |||
| I am doing | Muĩ korir dhorichung | Moe kori asü̃/asöng | Ami korchhi | Ami/Mui xoriar/xorram | Ami kortisi | Ami kortasi | |||
| I did | Muĩ korisong | Moe korisü̃/korisöng | Ami korechhi | Ami/mui xor(i)si | Ami korsi | Ami korsi | |||
| I did (perfective) | Muĩ korilung | Moe korilü̃/korilöng | Ami korlam | Ami/Mui xorlam | Ami kôrlam | Ami kôrlam | |||
| I did (distant) | Muĩ korisilung | Moe korisilü̃/korisilong | Ami korechhilam | Ami/Mui xors(i)lam | Ami korsilam | Ami korsilam | |||
| I was doing | Muĩ koria asilung | Moe kori asilü̃/asilöng | Ami korchhilam | Ami/Mui xorat aslam | Ami kortesilam | Ami kortasilam | |||
| I will do | Muĩ korim | Moe korim | Ami korbo | Ami/Mui xormu | Ami kormu/korbani | Ami kormu | |||
| I will be doing | Muĩ koria thakim | Moe kori thakim | Ami korte thakbo | Ami/Mui xorat táxmu | Ami korti thakmu/thakbani | Ami korte thakmu | |||
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References
References
- "Ethnologue: Language rkt". SIL International.
- Toulmin, Mathew W S. (2006). "Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan". The Australian National University.
- {{harvnb. Toulmin. 2009
- (28 February 2018). "Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal".
- "'''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
- "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
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