Chittagonian language

Chittagonian (Bengali: চিটাইঙ্গা) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chittagong Division in Bangladesh.[5][6][7] It is often erroneously considered to be a nonstandard dialect of Bengali, although the two are not mutually intelligible.[8] It is estimated (2009) that Chittagonian has 13–16 million speakers, principally in Bangladesh.[9]

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]
Bengali[3]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ctg
ctg
Glottologchit1275[4]
Linguasphere73-DEE-aa
  Chittagonian Language speaking area

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.[10]

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)
  2. Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
  3. "Chittagonian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  4. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chittagonian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  5. "Chittagonian [ctg]". SIL International.
  6. "Chittagonian". Linguist List.
  7. "Spoken L1 Language: Chittagonian". Glottolog.
  8. "Chittagonian A language of Bangladesh". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  9. "Summary by language size". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  10. "Chittagonian, a language of Bangladesh". Ethnologue. 2005. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2007.

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