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Atong language (Bangladesh and India)


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    • Attong language (Bangladesh and India)
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    • found: Work cat.: Breugel, Seino van. A dictionary of Atong : a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India and Bangladesh, 2021:(OCoLC)1196038245
    • found: Breugel, Seino van. A grammar of Atong, 2014:p. 1 (the Atong language; language of the Atong people; Atong is a Central Boro-Garo language, more closely related to Boro than to Rabha and Koch; Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the stream area of the Symsang river in the south Garo Hills District of Meghalaya in Northeast India, and in adjacent areas in the West Khasi Hills and, according to my Atong friends, the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh) (OCoLC)870646800
    • found: Ethnologue, Sept. 9, 2022(Atong; a language of India; also spoken in Bangladesh; ISO 639-3: aot; alternate names: A'tong, Attong; classification: Sino-Tibetan, Tibeto-Burman, Sal, Boro-Garo, Koch; Atong is also the name for languages in Cameroon and Myanmar)
    • found: Wikipedia, Sept. 9, 2022:Atong language (Sino-Tibetan) (Atong language; A.tong; spoken in the South Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills districts of Meghalaya state in Northeast India, southern Kamrup district in Assam, and adjacent areas in Bangladesh. The correct spelling "A.tong" is based on the way the speakers themselves pronounce the name of their language. There is no glottal stop in the name and it is not a tonal language)
    • found: Endangered Languages Project website, Sept. 9, 2022(Atong (India); classification: Sino-Tibetan, Brahmaputran)
    • found: Omniglot website, Sept. 9, 2022(Atong; a member of the Brahmaputran branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. It is spoken by about 10,000 people in northeast India and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. In India it is spoken by about 4,600 people in the South Garo Hills and West Khasi Hills districts of Meghalaya state, and in southern Kamrup district in Assam state. In Bangladesh it has about 5,400 speakers in the Dhaka division of the north Netrokona district; also known as A'tong or Attong, and is closely related to Garo)
  • LC Classification

    • PL4001.A87-PL4001.A8795
  • History Notes

    • [Established December 2022.]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2022-09-09: new
    • 2022-12-22: revised
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