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Key facts
- Native to
- India and Bangladesh
- Region
- Meghalaya , Assam , Bangladesh
- Ethnicity
- Garo
- Native speakers
- 1,145,323 (2011)
- Language family
- Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Sal Bodo-Garo Garo Garo
- Dialects
- Am·beng, A·we ba A·kawe, Matchi, Matchi-Dual, Matabeng ba Matjangchi, Gara-Ganching, Chisak, Atong, Ruga, Me·gam ba Lyngam, Chibok, Kamrup, Atiagra
- Writing system
- Latin script , Bengali-Assamese script , A-Chik Tokbirim
- Official language in
- India Meghalaya
- Iso 639 3
- grt
- Glottolog
- garo1247
- Elp
- Garo
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1000000
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Garo, also referred to by its endonym A·chikku, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Northeast Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Tripura. It is also spoken in certain areas of the neighbouring Bangladesh. It has associate official status in some districts within Meghalaya since 2005 and became a full-fledged official language of the state in 2026. According to the 2001 census, there are about 889,000 Garo speakers in India alone; another 130,000 are found in Bangladesh.
Geographical distribution