Hajong | |
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হাজং | |
Pronunciation | ha.dʒɔŋ |
Native to | India and Bangladesh |
Region | Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal in India Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona and Sunamganj in Bangladesh |
Ethnicity | Hajong |
Native speakers | 80,000 (2011)[1] 8,000 in Bangladesh (no date)[1] |
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Latin script · Bengali-Assamese script[2] | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | haj |
Glottolog | hajo1238 |
Hajong (in other script: হাজং, pronunciation [ha.dʒɔŋ]) is an Indo-Aryan language[3] with a possible Tibeto-Burman language substratum.[4][5] It is spoken by approximately 80,000 ethnic Hajongs across the northeast of the Indian subcontinent, specifically in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in present-day India, and the divisions of Mymensingh and Sylhet in present-day Bangladesh. It is written in Bengali-Assamese script and Latin script.[2] It has many Sanskrit loanwords. The Hajongs originally spoke a Tibeto-Burman language, but it later mixed with Assamese and Bengali.[6]Hajong is influenced by the Garo and Khasi languages in Meghalaya a tibet-burman.[citation needed]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).[The Hajongs] speak the Hajong language, originally a Tibeto-Burman tongue that later mixed with Assamese and Bengali.