Kurmukar
A language of India
| Population | 3,000 in India (2000). |
| Region | Assam, Barpeta, Goalpara, Dhubri districts; Tripura, West Bengal, Bihar, a few in Madhya Pradesh. Also in Nepal. |
| Alternate names | Karmakar, Kamar, Karmokar, Umar, Kumbhakar, Kumhar |
| Classification | Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Bengali-Assamese |
| Language use | Also use Assamese [asm], Hindi, or English. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | A dialect of Bengali [ben] which differs a lot from the standard (Singh 2002). Hindu. |
Also spoken in:
Nepal
| Language name | Kurmukar |
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