Bodo

Also known as Bodo (India), brx, Bodo language, Boro language (India), Boro, बोड़ो, बर'

Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodo people of north-eastern India and Nepal

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Bodo is a language spoken by the Bodo people who live in north-eastern India and Nepal, and it belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family. It matters because it represents an important part of the cultural and linguistic heritage of this region of South Asia.

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Image: Bodo Rao in Devanagari script.svg

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1482929
Wikimedia language code: brx
native label: बोडो भाषा‎
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BRX
Wikimedia Incubator URL: incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/brx
Commons category: Boro language (India)

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Boro (बरʼ, IPA: [bɔro]), also rendered Bodo, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Boro ethnic group of Northeast India and the neighboring countries of Nepal and Bangladesh. It is an official language of the Indian state of Assam, predominantly spoken in the Bodoland Territorial Region. It is also one of the twenty-two languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India. Since 1975 the language has been written using the Devanagari script. It was formerly written using Latin and Eastern-Nagari scripts. Some scholars have suggested that the language used to have its own now lost script known as Deodhai.

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