Tanchangya language

Tanchangya
Native to	Bangladesh
Region	Chittagong Hill Tracts, Mizoram, Tripura, Rakhine State
Ethnicity	Tanchangya people
Native speakers	(22,000 cited 1991 census)^[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bengali–Assamese Tanchangya
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`tnv`
Glottolog	`tang1330`^[2]

Tanchangya is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Tanchangya people of Bangladesh. It is closely related to Bengali.

References

↑ Tanchangya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tangchangya". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Languages of Bangladesh

Official language	Bengali

Semiofficial language	English

Indo-European	Assamese Bengali Bihari Bishnupriya Chakma Chittagonian Pali Rangpuri Rohingya Sadri Sylheti Hajong

Sino-Tibetan	Shö A'Tong Bawm Sak Kukish Falam Garo Haka Khumi Koch Kokborok Megam Meitei Manipuri Mizo Mru Pangkhu Rakhine Marma Riang Tanchangya Tippera Usoi

Austroasiatic	Khasi Koda Mundari Pnar Santali War-Jaintia

Dravidian	Kurukh Sauria Paharia

Afro-Asiatic	Arabic

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