| Kamta | |
|---|---|
| Kamatapuri | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | West Bengal |
Native speakers | 5,000,000 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | rkt |
Kamta (or Kamatapuri) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch. It is spoken in India, predominatly in the northern districts of West Bengal.
It is part of a wider dialect complex, viz. the KRNB lects, which also include Surjapuri, Rajbanshi (Nepal), and the Goalpariya dialects, which latter take an intermediate position between Kamta and Assamese. The Rangpuri variety in Bangladesh is mutually intelligble with Kamta, but is considered by its speakers a dialect of Bengali.[3]
Since many speakers of Kamta are Rajbongshi people, it is also known as Rajbongshi or Rajbanshi; however, the term Rajbongshi/Rajbanshi is also used for other KRNB varieties and thus ambiguous.[3]
Notes
edit- ^ Kamta at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ Toulmin 2009
- ^ a b Toulmin 2009.
References
edit- Toulmin, Mathew W. S. (2009). From linguistic to sociolinguistic reconstruction: the Kamta historical subgroup of Indo-Aryan. Pacific Linguistics 604. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-604.