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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Chittagonian
- Country
- Myanmar
- Image
- Rohingya.png
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- writing system
- Arabic alphabet
- Commons category
- Rohingya language
- linguistic typology
- subject–object–verb
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 1800000
- indigenous to
- Rakhine State
- topic's main category
- Category:Rohingya language
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Phonology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rohingya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.