Hajong language
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Hajong is an Indo-Aryan language[3] with a possible Tibeto-Burman language substratum.[4][5] It is spoken by approximately 80,000 ethnic Hajongs across the northeast of the Indian subcontinent, specifically in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in present-day India, and the divisions of Mymensingh and Sylhet in present-day Bangladesh. It is written in Bengali-Assamese script and Latin script.[2] It has many Sanskrit loanwords. The Hajongs originally spoke a Tibeto-Burman language, but it later mixed with Assamese and Bengali.[6]
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Hajong | |
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হাজং | |
Pronunciation | [ha.dʒɔŋ] |
Native to | India and Bangladesh |
Region | Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal in India Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona and Sunamganj in Bangladesh |
Ethnicity | Hajong |
Native speakers | 80,000 (2011)[1] 8,000 in Bangladesh (no date)[1] |
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Bengali-Assamese script, Latin script[2] | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | haj |
Glottolog | hajo1238 |
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