Bodo (language)
| Bodo | ||
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Spoken in |
India ( Assam ) | |
| speaker | 1.5 million | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | India , State of Assam | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
sit (other Sino-Tibetan languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
brx |
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Bodo (also Boro ) is a Tibetan -Burmese language from the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by the Bodo people mainly in the Bodoland region in the northwest of the northeast Indian state of Assam . According to the 2011 census, there were around 1.5 million native speakers in India. The Bodo is the official language in the Bodoland region. In addition, it is recognized as one of 22 constitutional languages in India at the supraregional level .
Bodo was only a spoken language until the 19th century, when the Bengali script was first introduced. In the course of the Christianization of many members of the Bodo people, the Latin alphabet was also used frequently. Today, however, the language is usually written in the Devanagari script. The separatists of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, on the other hand, demand a uniform spelling in Latin script.
Dialects
Bodo can be roughly divided into three dialect groups: a western, an eastern and a southern. The individual dialects differ mainly in pronunciation and vocabulary. The western dialect has established itself as the standard.
grammar
Bodo is an inflectional language. The language knows seven cases ( nominative , genitive , dative , accusative , instrumental , ablative , locative ), two numbers (singular, plural) and two grammatical genders (masculine and feminine). These are only differentiated for living beings, but not for objects. With the verbs there is only one tense for future, past and present. In the latter tenses, the verbs are also adapted to the aspect , with three aspects being distinguished in the present and two in the past.
