Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ ruˈaiŋɡ(j)a ]
- Native to
- Myanmar and Bangladesh
- Region
- Chittagong and Rakhine State
- Ethnicity
- Rohingya
- Native speakers
- 3.2 million (2018–2019)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bengali–Assamese Rohingya
- Writing system
- Hanifi Rohingya Bengali script Latin (Rohingyalish) Burmese Perso-Arabic ( Rohingya Arabic Alphabet ) (rare/dubious)
- Iso 639 3
- rhg
- Glottolog
- rohi1238
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- Commons category
- Rohingya language
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1800000
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Rohingya (𐴌𐴗𐴥𐴝𐴙𐴚𐴒𐴙𐴝, رُحَ࣪ڠۡگَ࣪ـࢬ, Ruáingga, [ruˈaiŋɡ(j)a]) is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily by the Rohingya people, who are from Rakhine State of Myanmar. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Bengali–Assamese branch, and is closely related to the Chittagonian language spoken in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya, Chakma, Noakhali and Chittagonian languages have a high degree of mutual intelligibility.
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