Rengmitca language
Rengmitca is a highly 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 (Peterson 2015).
Rengmitca | |
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Native to | Bangladesh |
Region | Chittagong Hill Tracts |
Native speakers | < 30 (2014)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | reng1255 [2] |
Rengmitca is spoken to the northeast of Alikadam town in the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.[1]
Peterson (2017)[3] classifies Rengmitca as a Khomic language.
References
- Peterson, David A. 2015. An update on the status of Rengmitca. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rengmitca". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 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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