Mal Paharia language
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| Mal Paharia | |
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| Spoken in | India |
| Region | Jharkhand and West Bengal |
| Ethnicity | Mal Paharia |
| Native speakers | approx. 100,000 (1994) |
| Language family |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mkb |
Mal Paharia, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 60,000 of 111,000 ethnic Mal Paharia in the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal in India and possibly in Bangladesh. There is a positive attitude amongst speakers of the language, and the language health is considered vigorous. Nonetheless, some speakers have shifted to Bengali.
[edit] External links
- Mal Paharia language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
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