War language

War Jaintia
Native to	India, Bangladesh
Region	Meghalaya, India, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Native speakers	67,558 (2003-2011 census)[1][2]
Language family	Austroasiatic Khasian War Jaintia; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aml
Glottolog	warj1242[3]

War Jaintia (also spelled Waar),^[4] War-Jaintia or Amwi is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India.

References

↑ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
↑ "War-Jaintia". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "War-Jaintia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ "Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages".

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[1] "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 2018-07-07.

[2] "War-Jaintia". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-10.

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "War-Jaintia". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[4] "Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages".