Tanchangya language

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Tanchangya
𑄖𑄧𑄐𑄴𑄌𑄧𑄁𑄉𑄴𑄡
'Tanchangya' in Tanchangya/Chakma script
Native to	Bangladesh
Region	Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh) Mizoram and Tripura (India) Rakhine State (Myanmar)
Ethnicity	Tanchangya people
Native speakers	46,000 (2022)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bengali–Assamese Tanchangya
Writing system	Tanchangya alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tnv
Glottolog	tang1330

The Tanchangya language is one of the eleven indigenous languages in Chittagong Hill Tracts in present-day Bangladesh, and an ethnic group in the Indian states of Tripura and Mizoram, as well as Rakhine State in Myanmar. Despite the common belief that it is a Tibeto-Burman language, it is categorized as a Indo-Aryan language.^[2] It is closely related to Chakma and Chittagonian.