War language

War
Native to	India, Bangladesh
Region	Meghalaya, India, Sylhet, Bangladesh
Native speakers	68,000 (2003-2011 census)[1][2]
Language family	Austroasiatic Khasian War; ;
Dialects	Amwi; Mnar;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aml
Glottolog	warj1242[3]

War (also spelled Waar),[4] also known as War-Jaintia, is an Austroasiatic language spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India.[5]

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".
Sidwell, Paul. 2018. The Khasian Languages: Classification, Reconstruction, and Comparative Lexicon. Languages of the World 58. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783862889143

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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".

[5] Sidwell, Paul. 2018. The Khasian Languages: Classification, Reconstruction, and Comparative Lexicon. Languages of the World 58. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783862889143