Rangpuri language

Rangpuri
Rangpuri
রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী
Native to	Bangladesh, India
Region	North Bengal, Lower Assam
Ethnicity	Rajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya-Sheikh, Rangpuri, Assamese
Native speakers	10 million (2007)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Odia–Bengali–Assamese Bengali–Assamese Kamrupa Kamta Central–Eastern Kamta Rangpuri; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Bengali-Assamese script
Official status
Official language in	India West Bengal (additional);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rkt
Glottolog	rang1272

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.^[5] 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;^[5] though Deshi bhasha and Anchalit bhasha is also used.^[6]

Comparison with related languages and dialects

English	Kamarupi		Rarhi	Vangiya
English	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

Notes

^ Rangpuri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
^ ^a ^b Toulmin, Mathew W S (2006). Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan (PhD). The Australian National University. p. 305.
^ Toulmin 2009, p. 72f, 89
^ PTI (28 February 2018). "Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
^ ^a ^b "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(Toulmin 2009:7)
^ "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'." (Toulmin 2009:17)

References

Toulmin, Mathew W S (2009), From Linguistic to Sociolinguistic Reconstruction: The Kamta Historical Subgroup of Indo-Aryan, Pacific Linguistics
Wilde, Christopher P. (2008). A Sketch of the Phonology and Grammar of Rājbanshi (Ph.D thesis). University of Helsinki. hdl:10138/19290.

External links

[e26-1] Rangpuri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)

[OGK-2] Toulmin, Mathew W S (2006). Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan (PhD). The Australian National University. p. 305.

[3] Toulmin 2009, p. 72f, 89

[4] PTI (28 February 2018). "Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.

[t09-rangpuri-5] "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(Toulmin 2009:7)

[6] "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'." (Toulmin 2009:17)

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