Dimasa
A language of India
| Population | 106,000 (1997). |
| Region | Assam, North Cachar District and Cachar Hills, Karbi Anglong, Nagaon districts; Nagaland, Haflong District; Meghalaya, Mizoram. |
| Alternate names | Dimasa Kachari, Hills Kachar |
| Dialects | Dimasa, Hariamba. Related to Kachari [xac]. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Jingpho-Konyak-Bodo, Konyak-Bodo-Garo, Bodo-Garo, Bodo |
| Language development | Literacy rate in L2: 60% in Assam. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 2005. |
| Writing system | Bengali script. Latin script. |
| Comments | A Scheduled Tribe. Some Dimasa speak other languages as L1: Mikir Karbi [mjw], Bengali [ben], Assamese [asm]. Swidden agriculturalists. Hindu mixed with traditional religion, Christian. |
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