Chittagonian
A language of Bangladesh
| Population | 13,000,000 (2006 SIL). |
| Region | Chittagong region. |
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Bangladesh |
| Alternate names | Chatgaiyan Buli, Chatgaya, Chittagonian Bengali |
| Dialects | Not inherently intelligible with Bengali [ben], although considered a nonstandard Bengali dialect. Dialects form a contiuum from north to south, with a larger religious distinction between Muslim and others. Rohingya in Myanmar is similar to the southern dialect of Chittagonian. Lexical similarity: 43%–64% with Bangla [ben]. |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Bengali-Assamese |
| Language use | Home, family, religion. Village women without access to TV do not understand Bengali. Educated people understand some Bengali, but are not comfortable using it. Education is in Standard Bengali. |
| Language development | Lower literacy rate than most of the country. TV. |
| Writing system | Arabic script. Latin script. |
| Comments | Muslim, Hindu, Christian. |
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