Bawm language

Bawm
Banjogi
Native toBangladesh, India, Myanmar
RegionRangamati and Bandarban
EthnicityBawm
Native speakers
ca. 16,000 (2004–2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bgr
Glottologbawm1236
ELPBawm Chin

Bawm or Bawm Zo, also known as Banjogi, is a Kuki-Chin language primarily spoken in Bangladesh. It is also spoken in adjacent regions of Northeast India and Myanmar.[2][page needed] The Bawms that live on the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh call their settlements "Bawmram", which literally means an area or location inhabited by Bawms.[3][page needed]

In Mizoram, India, Bawm is spoken in Chhimtuipui district, Lunglei district, and Aizawl district (Ethnologue). It is also spoken in the states of Tripura and Assam.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Bawm at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Thurgood, Graham; LaPolla, Randy J. (eds.). The Sino-Tibetan Languages.
  3. ^ Loncheu, Nathan (2013). Dena, Lal (ed.). Bawmzos: A Study Of The Chin-Kuki-Zo Tribes Of Chittagong. Akansha Publishing House. ISBN 9788183703468.