Rangpuri language

Kamtapuri

Rajbangshi (India)

Kamtapuri (India)
Kamtai (India)
Rangpuri (Bangladesh)
Rajbanshi (Nepal)
Native to Bangladesh, India, Nepal
Native speakers
 15 million (2011)[2]
Eastern Nagari (Official in Bangladesh, Assam and West Bengal) Devanagari (rare uses)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
rkt – Kamta/Rangpuri
rjs – Rajbanshi
kyv – Kayort[3]
Glottolog rang1265  Rangpuri[4]
rajb1243  Rajbanshi[5]

Kamtapuri, Rangpuri or Rajbangshi is a Bengali-Assamese language spoken by the Rajbongshi people in Bangladesh and India, and Rajbanshi and Tajpuria in Nepal. Many are bilingual in either Bengali or Assamese.

Names

Rangpuri goes by numerous names. In Bangladesh, these include Rangpuri, Bahe Bangla, Ancholit Bangla, Kamta, Polia. In India, there is Kamtapuri, Dutta, Rajbangsi, Rajbansi, Rajbanshi, Rajbongshi, Goalparia, surjapuri, Koch Rajbanshi. Another name of the language is Tajpuri. In Assam it is known as Kochrajbongshi. In Bihar it is known as Surjapuri.

Dialects

The main dialects are Western Rajbanshi, Central Rajbanshi, and Eastern Rajbanshi.

The Central dialect has the majority of speakers and is quite uniform. There are publications in this language. The Western dialect has more diversity. Lexical similarity is 77 to 89% between the three dialects. Rajbonshi shares 48 to 55% of its vocabulary with Assamese and Bengali and 43 to 49% with Maithili and Nepali.

Comparison with Kamtapuri, Bengali, Assamese and Sylheti language

EnglishKamtapuri/Koch RajbanshiAssameseBengaliSylheti
I doMuĩ kôrûMôi kôrûAmi kôriMui/Ami xori
I am doingMuĩ kôridhorchungMôi kôri asûAmi kôrchiMui/Ami xoriar/xorram
I didMuĩ kôrchulungMôi kôrisilûAmi kôrêchilamMui/Ami xorslam
I was doingMuĩ kôridhorchulungMôi kôri asilûAmi kôrchilamMui/Ami xorat aslam
I will doMuĩ kôrimMôi kôrimAmi kôrboMui/Ami xormu
I will be doingMuĩ kôrtê thakimMôi kôri/kôrat thakimAmi kôrtê thakboMui/Ami xorat táxmu

Notes

  1. ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  2. ↑ Kamta/Rangpuri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Rajbanshi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kayort[1] at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. ↑ Hammarström (2015) Ethnologue 16/17/18th editions: a comprehensive review: online appendices
  4. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rangpuri". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rajbanshi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

References

  • Toulmin, Mathew W S (2006). Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan (Ph.D.). The Australian National University.
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