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This article is about the language of Chittagong. For the city, see Chittagong.

Chittagonian
চিটাইঙ্গা
Pronunciation[siʈaiŋga]
Native toBangladesh
RegionChittagong region
EthnicityChittagonians
Native speakers
13 million (2006)[1]
to 16 million (2007)[2]
N/A
Language codes
ISO 639-3ctg
ctg
Glottologchit1275
Linguasphere73-DEE-aa
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  Chittagonian Language speaking area

Chittagonian (Template:Lang-ctg) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chittagong Division in Bangladesh.[3][4][5] It is often erroneously considered to be a nonstandard dialect of Bengali, although the two are not mutually intelligible.[6] It is estimated (2009) that Chittagonian has 13–16 million speakers, principally in Bangladesh.[7]

Classification

Chittagonian is a member of the Bengali-Assamese sub-branch of the Eastern group of Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the wider Indo-European language family. Its sister languages include Sylheti, Rohingya, Chakma, Assamese, and Bengali. It is derived through an Eastern Middle Indo-Aryan from Old Indo-Aryan, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.[8]

Writing system

Historically Arabic script was used for writing system. The Bengali script is the most common script used nowadays.

See also

References

  1. ^ Chittagonian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
  3. ^ "Chittagonian [ctg]". SIL International.
  4. ^ "Chittagonian". Linguist List.
  5. ^ "Spoken L1 Language: Chittagonian". Glottolog.
  6. ^ "Chittagonian A language of Bangladesh". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  7. ^ "Summary by language size". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  8. ^ "Chittagonian, a language of Bangladesh". Ethnologue. 2005. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2007.
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