Rabha is a member of the Sal branch of the Tibeto-Burman language family. It has about 140,000 speakers in Assam, West Bengal and Maghalaya in the northeast of India. In particular, it is spoken in the Goalpara, Kamrup and Darang districts in the south of Assam, and in the East Garo Hills and West Garo Hills districts in the west of Meghalaya, and in the Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Bihar districts in the north of West Bengal
Rabha is also known as Raba, Rabha krwu or Rabha Khurang. The main dialects are Maitori, Rangdani and Kocha. Maitori and Rongdani are mutual intelligibile, and Kocha is much less so.
There are ways to write Rabha with the Assamese / Bengali and Latin scripts. It was first documented at the end of the 19th century. The Assamese / Bengali script was first adopted by the Rabha Literary Association in 1975. There is a translation of the Bible in Rabha, as well as a number of other works in and about the language.
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Sarkaian okan jytyk changata aro syman changa rasongsini aro hakangsini digi. Urong ato ba nibadang teke dengbakai hasongo urgi aro phamangiri aro mapaksini charpak teke kamirana lagia.
Bebak marab sadin saingmwn jonom sayaara masni gwkswn masa. Onoknge braknge ara aprik bobai nwngo ango ajong sungsunge laimwn cholon chuduk twrwi ningmwn.
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Information about Rabha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabha_language
https://www.rabhalanguage.com/en/homepage
https://khurangchak.com/en/home
http://lisindia.ciil.org/Rabha/Rabha_hist.html
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2124518/
https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/rabha/
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 02.03.26. Last modified: 02.03.26
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