Rohingya language

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The Rohingya language is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Rohingya people from Rakhine State in Myanmar and neighboring regions.

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Label Occurrences
Rohingya language canonical 7

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Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
natural language
alsoSpokenIn Bangladesh
India
Indonesia
Malaysia
Pakistan
Saudi Arabia
Thailand
United Arab Emirates
Western countries diaspora
closelyRelatedTo Bengali language
Chittagonian language
ethnolinguisticIdentity marker of Rohingya identity
family Indo-European languages
hasAlternativeName Rohinga
linked to: Rohingya

Ruáingga
hasDialect varieties across northern Rakhine State
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Arabic language
linked to: Arabic

Burmese language
English language
linked to: English

Persian language
Urdu language
hasOnlinePresence community websites
social media
hasOrthography Hanifi Rohingya orthography
hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom Burmese language
linked to: Burmese
hasStandardizationEffortsBy Rohingya scholars
isMutuallyIntelligibleToSomeDegreeWith Chittagonian
regional Bengali dialects
ISO639-3Code rhg
languageStatus endangered language
minority language
linguisticArea Arakan region
linked to: Arakan
primaryCountry Myanmar
primaryRegion Rakhine State
primaryWordOrder SOV
religionAssociatedWithSpeakers Islam
spokenBy Rohingya people
linked to: Rohingya
subfamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-Iranian languages
subgroup Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
UNESCOStatus vulnerable or endangered (regional assessments)
usedIn Rohingya community media
Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
writingSystem Arabic script
Burmese script (limited use)
Hanifi Rohingya script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bengali script usedFor Rohingya language
Arakan hasLanguage Rohingya language
Rohingya primaryLanguage Rohingya language
Sylheti language isRelatedTo Rohingya language
Rakhine language hasNeighboringLanguage Rohingya language
Rakhine State regionalLanguage Rohingya language