Garo

Language

Languagenatural language modern languageQ36137

Also known as Garo language · A·chikku

Speakers: 1,000,000
Subclass of: Bodo–Garo
Script: A·chik Tok·birim
Indigenous to: Jamalpur District
, Sherpur District
, Sunamganj District
+10 more

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Garo, also referred to by its endonym A·chikku, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Northeast Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Tripura. It is also spoken in certain areas of the neighbouring Bangladesh. It has associate official status in some districts within Meghalaya since 2005 and became a full-fledged official language of the state in 2026. According to the 2001 census, there are about 889,000 Garo speakers in India alone; another 130,000 are found in Bangladesh.

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2 linked to Garo in Wikidata

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38 statements · 24% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Ethnologue language status: 2 Provincial
Country: Bangladesh
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1.“ScriptSource - Bangladesh”scriptsource.org/country/BDRetrieved 2023-08-21
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India
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1.“ScriptSource - India”scriptsource.org/country/INRetrieved 2023-08-21
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Different from: Mande

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14 identifiers linking Garo across the web's reference databases

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AIDB. (2026). Garo (Q36137). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/garo-Q36137