Ethnologue

Kurmukar

ISO 639-3

Alternate Names

Kamar, Karmakar, Karmokar, Kumbhakar, Kumhar, Umar

Population

3,000 (2000 SIL).

Location

Assam state: Barpeta, Goalpara, and Dhubri districts; Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, and West Bengal states.

Language Maps

Language Status

6b* (Threatened).

Classification

Language Use

Also use Assamese [asm], English [eng], Hindi [hin].

Language Resources

Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

A dialect of Bengali [ben] which differs a lot from the standard (Singh et al 2003). Hindu.