Bawm language

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The Bawm language is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily by the Bawm ethnic community in parts of Bangladesh and neighboring regions.

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Bawm language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Tibeto-Burman language
language
alternativeName Bawm Chin NERFINISHED
Bawmzo NERFINISHED
belongsToMacroGroup Chin languages
closelyRelatedTo Lai language NERFINISHED
Mizo language NERFINISHED
countryWithSignificantSpeakers Bangladesh NERFINISHED
countryWithSpeakers India NERFINISHED
Myanmar NERFINISHED
dominantContactLanguage Bengali
Chakma NERFINISHED
Mizo NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Bawm people NERFINISHED
family Sino-Tibetan language family NERFINISHED
hasDomain home and community domains
hasISO639-3Code bgr
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
hasNativeSpeakers true
hasOralLiterature folktales
ritual chants
songs
hasPhonologicalFeature tone
hasSpeakerAttitude strong ethnic identity association
hasSpeakerCommunity Bawm communities in Myanmar
Bawm ethnic community in Chittagong Hill Tracts
Bawm settlements in Mizoram
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn Bangladesh NERFINISHED
languageBranch Kuki-Chin languages NERFINISHED
languageOf Bawm culture
region South Asia
Southeast Asia
riskFactor language shift to dominant regional languages
spokenIn Bangladesh NERFINISHED
Chittagong Hill Tracts NERFINISHED
India
Mizoram NERFINISHED
Myanmar NERFINISHED
status minority language
subfamily Tibeto-Burman NERFINISHED
subjectOf ethnolinguistic studies
linguistic documentation efforts
usedFor daily communication within Bawm community
oral tradition
religious practices
usedInEducation limited non-formal or community education
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Kuki-Chin languages hasMember Bawm language