| War Language | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India, Bangladesh |
| Region | Meghalaya (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) |
Native speakers | 68,000 (2003-2011 census) [1] [2] |
Austroasiatic
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
aml |
| Glottolog |
warj1242 |
War (also known as Waar or War-Jaintia) [3] is an Austroasiatic language in the Khasic branch spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India. [4]
It is not to be confused with Khasi War, a Khasi dialect spoken by the closely related War-Khyriam. [5]
See also
References
- ^ "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ "War-Jaintia". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
- ^ "ISO 639 Code Tables".
- ^ Sidwell, Paul. 2018. The Khasian Languages: Classification, Reconstruction, and Comparative Lexicon. Languages of the World 58. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783862889143
- ^ "The War-Jaintia in Bangladesh: a sociolinguistic survey" (PDF). Journal of Language Survey Reports. 2007. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
| Official language | |
|---|---|
| Indo-European | |
| Sino-Tibetan | |
| Austroasiatic | |
| Dravidian | |
| Afro-Asiatic | |
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