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| Rangpuri | |
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| রংপুরী, কোচ-ৰাজবংশী, দেশী | |
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| Native to | Bangladesh, India |
| Region | North Bengal, Lower Assam |
| Ethnicity | Rajbongshi, Bengali, Deshi, Nashya-Sheikh, Rangpuri, Assamese |
Native speakers | 10 million (2007)[1] |
| Bengali-Assamese script[3] | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  India
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rkt |
| Glottolog | rang1272 |
Rangpuri (Rangpuri: অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri or অমপুরি Ômpuri) (Assamese: কোচ-ৰাজবংশী) is an eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, northern West Bengal and western Goalpara of Assam in India.[5] Many are bilingual in Bengali and Assamese in their respective regions. According to Glottolog, it forms the Central-Eastern Kamta group with the Kamta language. Together with Rajbanshi and Surjapuri they form the Kamta group of languages.
- ^ Rangpuri at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)
- ^ a b Toulmin, Mathew W S (2006). Reconstructing linguistic history in a dialect continuum: The Kamta, Rajbanshi, and Northern Deshi Bangla subgroup of Indo-Aryan (PhD). The Australian National University. p. 305.
- ^ Toulmin 2009, p. 72f, 89
- ^ PTI (28 February 2018). "Kamtapuri, Rajbanshi, Rangpuri make it to list of official languages in Bengal". Outlook India. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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