Toto
A language of India
| Population | 20,000 (King 1994). |
| Region | West Bengal, Jalpaiguri District, Subhapara, Dhunchipara, Panchayatpara hillocks on Indo-Bhutan border, Totopara village. |
| Dialects | Not inherently intelligible with Dhimal [dhi] of Nepal. Low lexical similarity with Dhimal. |
| Classification | Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Himalayish, Tibeto-Kanauri, Tibetic, Dhimal |
| Language use | Also use Hindi, Bengali [ben], or Nepali [nep]. |
| Writing system | Bengali script. Devanagari script. |
| Comments | A Scheduled Tribe. SOV; postpositions; genitives, demonstratives, relatives before noun heads; nontonal. Agriculturalists; animal husbandry: poultry, pigs. Traditional religion, Hindu. |
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