Chittagonian language
| Chittagonian | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Bangladesh | |
| speaker | 16 million | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -2 |
ctg |
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| ISO 639-3 |
ctg |
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The Chittagonian language , also Chittagonian (own name: চিটাইঙ্গা) is an Indo-Aryan language that is spoken in the Chittagong division in Bangladesh . It is often mistakenly viewed as a dialect of the Bengali language even though the two are not completely mutually understandable. It is estimated (2020) that Chittagonian has 13 to 16 million speakers, mostly in Bangladesh. It is one of the 100 most widely spoken languages in the world. A variety of the language is also spoken by the Rohingya in Myanmar .
classification
Chittagonian is a member of the Bengali-Assamese sub-branch of the eastern group of the Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the broader Indo-European language family. The sister languages include Sylheti , Rohingya , Chakma , Assamese and Bengali. It is derived from the ancient Indo-Aryan and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-Aryan .
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Historically, the Arabic script was used as the writing system. The Bengali script is the most widely used script for the Chittagonian language today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ctg | ISO 639-3. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ What are the top 200 most spoken languages? October 3, 2018, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Chittagonian. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .