Languages of Bangladesh Languages of Bangladesh Assamese (অসমীয়া) or Asamiya or Oxomiya is the language spoken by some of the natives of the state of Assam in northeast India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Small pockets of Assamese speakers can be found in Bhutan and Bangladesh. Immigrants from Assam have carried the language with them to other parts of the world. The eastern most of Indo-European languages, it is spoken by over 20 million people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Assamese language"
Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা ) is an Indo-Aryan language of South Asia that evolved as a successor to the Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit languages. Bengali is the English word for the name of the language and for its speakers; in Bengali, the language itself is called Bangla (pronounced: ), a term that now has greater currency in English. From this point forward, Bangla will be used to refer to the language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bengali language"
The Burmese language ( , or bama sa) is the official language of Myanmar (known until 1989 as Burma). Although the government recognizes the language as Myanmar, most continue to refer to it as Burmese. Burmese is a member of the Tibeto-Burman languages, which is a subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. It is spoken by 32 million as a first language, and as a second language by minorities in Burma (10 million people), such as the Chinese, Indian, Karen, Mon, and Shan. The language utilizes the Burmese script, which derives from the Mon script and ultimately from the Brahmi script. The script has a rather round shape and is called sa-loun (round letters). Burmese is a tonal language, with four main tones. ...more on Wikipedia about "Burmese language"
Khasi is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken primarily in Meghalaya state in India. Khasi is part of the Mon-Khmer group of languages, and distantly related to the Munda branch of the Austroasiatic family, which is found in east-central India. ...more on Wikipedia about "Khasi language"
Kokborok (also spelled Kakborok or Kok Borok) is the native language of the Tripuri community in the northeast Indian state of Tripura. The word Kokborok is composed of two words, kok which means "language" and borok which literally means "man" but is used to denote the Tripuri people. Thus Kokborok means "the language of man" or "the language of the Borok people". ...more on Wikipedia about "Kokborok language"
Meithei (also Meitei, Manipuri, Meiteilon) is the predominant language and lingua-franca in the state of Manipur, in northeastern India. It is the official language in government offices. Meithei has proven to be a large integrating factor among all ethnic groups in Manipur who use it to communicate among themselves. ...more on Wikipedia about "Meithei language"
Santali is a language in the Munda subfamily of Austro-Asiatic, related to Ho and Mundari. It is spoken by about six million people in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. Most of its speakers live in India, in the states of Jharkhand, Assam, Bihar, Orissa, Tripura, and West Bengal. It has its own alphabet, known as Ol Cemet', but literacy is very low, between 10 and 30%. Santali is spoken by the Santhals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Santali language"
Sylheti is the language of Sylhet, the North Eastern region of Bangladesh and a few southern districts of Assam. It is also spoken by a significant population in the other north-eastern states of India. It is similar enough to Bengali to be considered a dialect, but is probably better seen as a separate language. Given that Sylhet was part of the ancient kingdom of Kamarupa (Edward Gait, History of Assam, p274), the language has many common features with Assamese. According to Grierson (Language Survey of India, Vol II, Pt 1, p224), "The inflections also differ from those of regular Bengali, and in one or two instances assimilate to those of Assamese". Indeed it was formerly written in its own script, Sylheti Nagari, similar in style to Devanagari but significantly simpler. Now it is almost invariably written in Bengali script. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sylheti language"
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