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Bodo

Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodo people of north-eastern India and Nepal

Languagenatural language modern language indigenous languageQ33223

Also known as Bodo (India) · brx · Bodo language · Boro language (India) · Bodo · Boro

Speakers: 603,000
, 1,482,929(2011)
1
Sources
1.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language-2011/Statement-1.pdf
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Subclass of: Tibeto-Burman
Script: Devanagari
Indigenous to: Bodo tribe
, Assam
, Goa
+3 more

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Boro, also rendered Bodo, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Boro ethnic group of Northeast India and the neighboring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh. It is an official language of the Indian state of Assam, predominantly spoken in the Bodoland Territorial Region. It is also one of the twenty-two languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India. Since 1975 the language has been written using the Devanagari script. It was formerly written using Latin and Eastern-Nagari scripts. Some scholars have suggested that the language used to have its own now lost script known as Deodhai.

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17 linked to Bodo in Wikidata

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45 statements · 27% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Country: India
2
Sources
1.unesco.org/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/language-id-1229.html
2.“ScriptSource - India”scriptsource.org/country/INRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing
UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered
Wikimedia language code: brx
1
Sources
1.Stated in Wikidata Toolkitgithub.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/blob/3e62f93b137c25961c5a12172c7f213a720ecb67/wdtk-datamodel/src/main/java/org/wikidata/wdtk/datamodel/interfaces/WikimediaLanguageCodes.javaRetrieved 2019-06-06
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Native label: बोडो‎ ipa transcription: bɔɽo
बोडो भाषा‎ transliteration or transcription: boḍo bʰāṣā
Category for films in this language: Category:Bodo-language films
Part of: Schedule languages of India
Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Bodo

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