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Tangchangya

A language of Bangladesh

ISO 639-3tnv

Population  21,600 (1991 census).
Region  Chittagong Hills.
Language map  Bangladesh
Alternate names   Tanchangya
Dialects  90% intelligibility of Chakma [ccp]. Lexical similarity: 58%–67% with Chakma.
Classification  Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern zone, Bengali-Assamese
Comments  Agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CLIFTON, John M., author. 2009. Orthography development as an ongoing collaborative process: lessons from Bangladesh.  Available online