Boro language

E166029

Boro language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Boro people of Assam in northeastern India.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bodo language 1
Boro language canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
alternateName Bodo
Boro language
surface form: Bodo language

Boro
censusSource 2011 Census of India
closelyRelatedTo Dimasa language
Garo language
Kokborok
Zaiwa language
surface form: Tiwa language
country India
ethnicGroup Bodo people
surface form: Boro people
family Tibeto-Burman languages
surface form: Tibeto-Burman
formerWritingSystem Bengali script
surface form: Assamese script

Latin script
glottocode bodo1269
governingBody Bodo Sahitya Sabha
hasDialects Eastern Boro
Southern Boro
Western Boro
hasScriptType abugida
includedIn Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India
iso639-1Code none
iso639-2Code brx
iso639-3Code brx
languageFamily Sino-Tibetan
linguisticTypology SOV word order
numberOfSpeakers approximately 1.5 million
over 1 million
officialStatusIn Assam
phonologicalFeature tone language
primaryRegion Assam
recognizedAs scheduled language of India
recognizedBy Government of Assam
Government of India
region Bodoland Territorial Region
scriptAdopted Devanagari script
scriptAdoptionPeriod 1970s
spokenBy Bodo people
surface form: Boro people
spokenIn Assam
India
northeastern India
status official language of Bodoland Territorial Region
subfamily Bodo–Garo languages
surface form: Bodo–Garo
usedFor education in Assam
primary education in Bodoland Territorial Region
usedIn Bodo literature
writingSystem Devanagari script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bodo alternativeName Boro language
subject surface form: Bodo language
Boro language alternateName Boro language
this entity surface form: Bodo language