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| Boro | |
|---|---|
| Bodo | |
| बरʼ | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Bodo_Rao_in_Devanagari_script.svg) The words Boro Rao (Boro language) written in Devanagari script | |
| Native to | Northeast India |
| Region | Bodoland (Assam) |
| Ethnicity | Boro people |
Native speakers | 1.4 million (2011 census)[1] |
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| Official status | |
Official language in | India |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | brx |
| Glottolog | bodo1269 |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Bodoland_Territorial_Area_Districts.svg) Map of Bodoland region where the primary spoken language is Bodo | |
Boro[2] (बरʼ[bɔro]), also rendered Bodo,[3] is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Boros of Northeast India and the neighboring nations of Nepal and Bangladesh. It is an official language of the Indian state of Assam, predominantly spoken in the Bodoland Territorial Region.[4][5] It is also one of the twenty-two languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.[6] Since 1975 the language has been written using the Devanagari script. It was formerly written using Latin and Eastern-Nagari scripts. Some scholars have suggested that the language used to have its own now lost script known as Deodhai.
- ^ "Census of India 2011: Language" (PDF). p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 June 2018.
- ^ "In terms of nomenclature, both Bodo and Boro are equally prevalent. The influential Bodo Sahitya Sabha (Bodo Literary Society) has approved the use of both Boro and Bodo to name the language. Many past and recent studies on the language like Burton-Page (1955), Bhat (1968), Bhattacharya (1977), Joseph and Burling (2001, 2006), Basumatary (2005), Boro (2007) and DeLancey (2010, 2011) have described the language as Boro. In this paper, we follow the name frequently used in these works on Boro and therefore use Boro." (Das & Mahanta 2019:1f)
- ^ "Table 1 - LSI: Bodo; Modern name: Boro" (Jaquesson 2017:101)
- ^ PTI (30 December 2020). "Assam Assembly Accords Associate Official Language Status To Bodo". NDTV. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- ^ "THE ASSAM OFFICIAL LANGUAGE (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020" (PDF).
- ^ "Languages Included in the Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution".