Boro language

E166029

Boro language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Boro people of Assam in northeastern India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bodo language 1
Boro language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
alternateName Bodo
Bodo language
linked to: Boro language

Boro
censusSource 2011 Census of India
closelyRelatedTo Dimasa language
Garo language
Kokborok
Tiwa language
linked to: Zaiwa language
country India
ethnicGroup Boro people
linked to: Bodo people
family Tibeto-Burman
formerWritingSystem Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script

Latin script
glottocode bodo1269
governingBody Bodo Sahitya Sabha
hasDialects Eastern Boro
Southern Boro
Western Boro
hasScriptType abugida
includedIn Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India
iso639-1Code none
iso639-2Code brx
iso639-3Code brx
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
linguisticTypology SOV word order
numberOfSpeakers approximately 1.5 million
over 1 million
officialStatusIn Assam
phonologicalFeature tone language
primaryRegion Assam
recognizedAs scheduled language of India
recognizedBy Government of Assam
Government of India
region Bodoland Territorial Region
scriptAdopted Devanagari script
scriptAdoptionPeriod 1970s
spokenBy Boro people
linked to: Bodo people
spokenIn Assam
India
northeastern India
status official language of Bodoland Territorial Region
subfamily Bodo–Garo
usedFor education in Assam
primary education in Bodoland Territorial Region
usedIn Bodo literature
writingSystem Devanagari script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Bodo language alternativeName Boro language
subject linked to: Bodo
Boro language alternateName Bodo language
linked to: Boro language