| Kachari | |
|---|---|
| কছাৰী | |
| Region | Assam, India |
Native speakers | 16,000 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xac |
| Glottolog | kach1279 |
| ELP | Kachari |
Kachari is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Boro-Garo branch that is spoken in Assam, India. With fewer than 60,000 speakers recorded in 1997, and the Asam 2001 Census reporting a literacy rate of 81% the Kachari language is currently ranked as threatened.[3] Kachari is closely related to surrounding languages, including Tiwa, Rābhā, Hajong, Kochi and Mechi.[4]
While there are still living adult speakers, many children are not learning Kachari as their primary language, instead being assimilated into the wider Assamese speaking communities.[5]
- Some alternative names are Boro,[6] Bara, Cachari,[7] Plains Kachari[5] and Hill Kachari.[7]
- Geographic distribution: Kachari is spoken in 16 villages total in North Cachar Hills district, Assam, and Dimapur and Dhansiri administrative circles of Kohima district, Nagaland.[3]
- ^ Kachari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Grierson, G.A. (1903). "Linguistic Survey of India, Volume III, Tibeto-Burman Family, Part II, "Specimens of the Bodo, Nāgā, and Kachin groups"". The Record News.
- ^ a b Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D. "Kachari". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Twentieth edition. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
- ^ Robinson, William (1849-01-01). Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal "Notes on the Languages Spoken by the various tribes inhabiting the valley of Asam and its mountain confines.". G.H. Rouse, Baptist Mission Press. pp. 215–224.
- ^ a b "Did you know Kachari is endangered?". Endangered Languages. Retrieved 2017-03-09.
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