Rangpuri
রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী
Native toBangladesh, India
RegionNorth Bengal, Lower Assam
EthnicityRajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya-Sheikh, Rangpuri, Assamese
Native speakers
10 million (2007)[1]
Bengali-Assamese script,[2] Devanagari script
Official status
Official language in
 India
Language codes
ISO 639-3rkt
Glottolograng1272

Rangpuri (Rangpuri: অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri or অমপুরি Ômpuri) is an eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, northern West Bengal and western Goalpara of Assam in India.[4] Many are bilingual in Bengali and Assamese in their respective regions. According to Glottolog, it forms the Central-Eastern Kamta group with the Kamta language. Together with Rajbanshi and Surjapuri they form the Kamta group of languages.

Names

Rangpuri goes by numerous names, the most common being Bahe;[4] though Deshi bhasha and Anchalit bhasha is also used.[5]

EnglishKamarupiRarhiVangiya
KamtapuriStandard AssameseStandard BengaliSylhetiKhulnaiya BengaliDhakaiya Bengali
I doMuĩ korongMoe korü̃/korönɡAmi koriAmi xoríAmi koriAmi kori
I am doingMuĩ korir dhorichungMoe kori asü̃/asöngAmi korchhiAmi xoriar/xorramAmi kortisiAmi kortasi
I didMuĩ korisongMoe korisü̃/korisöngAmi korechhiAmi xor(i)siAmi korsiAmi korsi
I did (perfective)Muĩ korilungMoe korilü̃/korilöngAmi korlamAmi xorlamAmi kôrlamAmi kôrlam
I did (distant)Muĩ korisilungMoe korisilü̃/korisilongAmi korechhilamAmi xors(i)lamAmi korsilamAmi korsilam
I was doingMuĩ koria asilungMoe kori asilü̃/asilöngAmi korchhilamAmi xorat aslamAmi kortesilamAmi kortasilam
I will doMuĩ korimMoe korimAmi korboAmi xormuAmi kormu/korbaniAmi kormu
I will be doingMuĩ koria thakimMoe kori thakimAmi korte thakboAmi xorat táxmuAmi korti thakmu/thakbaniAmi korte thakmu

Notes

  1. ↑ Rangpuri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Toulmin 2009, p. 72f, 89
  3. ↑ PTI (28 February 2018). "Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Rangpuri: This term is favoured in the Rangpur area, interchangeably with ‘Bahe.’ Chaudhuri (1939) prefers to use Rangpuri to Rajbanshi, as it avoids the problem of being caste-centric." H(Toulmin 2009:7)
  5. ↑ "Rangpur, the headquarters of a district in Bangladesh. During this first stage of research, data were collected with speakers at several sites outside the town perimeter (cf. Appendix C of Toulmin 2006). Speakers of this area refer to their mother tongue as either 'Bahe,' 'Rangpuri,' 'Deshi bhasha' or its synonym 'Anchalit bhasha' meaning 'the local language'." (Toulmin 2009:17)

References

Kamtapuri test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator
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