Bodo language
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| Bodo | ||
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| Spoken in: | India, with a few small communities in Nepal | |
| Total speakers: | 603,000: 600,000 in India (1997), 3,301 in Nepal (2001) | |
| Language family: | Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Jingpho-Konyak-Bodo Konyak-Bodo-Garo Bodo-Garo Bodo |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language of: | Assam (India) | |
| Regulated by: | no official regulation | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sit | |
| ISO 639-3: | brx | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Bodo, 'pronounced BO-RO is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by the Bodo people of north-eastern India and Nepal. The language is one of the official languages of the Indian state of Assam, and is one of 22 scheduled languages given a special constitutional status in India.
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[edit] Classification and related languages
Bodo language, a branch of the Tibeto-Burman family of language is a rich language. It is a major language of the Bodo group under the Assam-Burmese group of language. It shares some common features in respect of vocabulary, phonology, morphology and syntax with other sister languages of the Bodo group.
It is closely related to the Dimasa language of Assam and the Garo language of Meghalaya. It is also a very closely related language of Kokborok language spoken in Tripura.
[edit] History
In the aftermath of socio-political awakening and movement launched by the Bodo organizations since 1913, the language was introduced as the medium of instruction (1963) in the primary schools in Bodo dominated areas. Currently, the Bodo language serves as a medium of instruction up to the secondary level and an associated official language in the state of Assam. The language has attained a position of pride with the opening of the Post-Graduate course in Bodo language and literature in the University of Guwahati in 1996. The Bodo language has to its credit large number of books on poetry, drama, short story, novel, biography, travelogue, children's literature and literary criticism.
[edit] Dialects
Chote, Mech. Related to Dimasa, Tripuri, Lalunga, Boro.
[edit] Script
The language is officially written using the Devanagari script, although it also has a long history of using the Roman script. Some researchers have suggested that the language originally used a now-lost script called Deodhai.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Abley, Mark (2006) The Verbs of Boro, Lost Magazine, March 2006
- Bodoland.org
- Boro Language
