Rengmitca language
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Rengmitca | |
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Native to | Bangladesh |
Region | Chittagong Hill Tracts |
Native speakers | <20 (2020)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | reng1255 |
Rengmitca is a critically-endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh. It is distinct but closely related to the nearby languages Khumi and Mro. There are fewer than 30 speakers left as of 2014. Only 5 are completely fluent, all over the age of 60.[1] But as of 2021 there are only 6 speaker of this language are left, most of whom are over the age of 60.[2]
Rengmitca is spoken to the northeast of Alikadam town in the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.[3]
Peterson (2017)[4] classifies Rengmitca as a Khomic language.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Peterson, David A. (2020-12-01). "The stem alternation in Rengmitca". Himalayan Linguistics. 19 (2). doi:10.5070/h91150997. ISSN 1544-7502.
- ^ Marma, U. She Thowai. "Rengmitca: an ethnic language on the verge of extinction". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
- ^ Peterson, David A. 2015. An update on the status of Rengmitca. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.
- ^ Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
- Peterson, David A. 2013. "Rengmitca: The most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh." In Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith, eds. Trans-Himalayan linguistics: Historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area, 313–327. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Peterson, David A. 2014. The dynamics of Rengmitca's endangerment. Paper presented at SoLE-3, Yunnan Nationalities University.
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