Bishnupriya Manipuri language

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Bishnupriya Manipuri is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Bishnupriya Manipuri community in parts of northeastern India and Bangladesh, noted for its blend of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman linguistic features.

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Observed surface forms (1)

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Bishnupriya Manipuri 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language
Indo-Aryan language
natural language
alternativeName Bishnupriya NERFINISHED
Bishnupriya Manipuri NERFINISHED
Bishnupriya Meitei NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Assamese language NERFINISHED
Bengali language NERFINISHED
ethnicGroupAssociated Bishnupriya Manipuri community
hasApproximateNumberOfSpeakers hundreds of thousands
hasCommunityMedia yes
hasGrammaticalFeaturesFrom Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
Tibeto-Burman languages NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom Assamese language NERFINISHED
Bengali language
Meitei language NERFINISHED
Tibeto-Burman languages NERFINISHED
hasLiteraryTradition yes
hasOnlinePresence yes
hasPhonologicalFeaturesFrom Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
Tibeto-Burman languages NERFINISHED
hasWordOrder SOV
ISO639-3Code bpy
languageBranch Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
languageFamily Indo-European language family NERFINISHED
languageSubfamily Indo-Iranian languages NERFINISHED
lexicalBorrowingFrom Assamese language
Bengali language
Meitei language NERFINISHED
Sanskrit NERFINISHED
region Eastern Bangladesh
Northeastern India
script Bengali–Assamese script NERFINISHED
Eastern Nagari script NERFINISHED
spokenBy Bishnupriya Manipuri people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Assam NERFINISHED
Bangladesh NERFINISHED
India
Manipur NERFINISHED
Sylhet Division NERFINISHED
Tripura NERFINISHED
status endangered language
minority language
subgroup Eastern Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
usedFor cultural activities
daily communication
folk literature
writingSystem alphabetic

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Eastern Indo-Aryan languages hasMajorLanguage Bishnupriya Manipuri language
Cachar district hasSpokenLanguage Bishnupriya Manipuri language
this entity surface form: Bishnupriya Manipuri