Hajong language

Hajong
Hajong
হাজং
Pronunciation	[ha.dʒɔŋ]
Native to	India and Bangladesh
Region	Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal in India Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona and Sunamganj in Bangladesh
Ethnicity	Hajong
Native speakers	80,000 (2011); 8,000 in Bangladesh (no date)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo Aryan Eastern Bengali–Assamese Hajong; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Doskina'; Korebari; Susung'ya'; Barohajarya'; Mespa'rya';
Writing system	Bengali-Assamese script, Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	haj
Glottolog	hajo1238

Hajong is an Indo-Aryan language with a possible Tibeto-Burman language substratum. It is spoken by approximately 80,000 ethnic Hajongs across the northeast of the Indian subcontinent, specifically in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in present-day India, and the divisions of Mymensingh and Sylhet in present-day Bangladesh. It is written in Bengali-Assamese script and Latin script. It has many Sanskrit loanwords. The Hajongs originally spoke a Tibeto-Burman language, but it later mixed with Assamese and Bengali.

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