Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 brx
Bodo (India) Language Bodo
Bodo (India) is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1.9 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Devanagari, Bangla and Latin scripts.
Where Bodo (India) is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Bodo (India) language
Bodo (India) (Bodo) is spoken by about 1.9 million people, which makes it the 321st most spoken language in the world — just behind Ahirani (1.9 million) and ahead of Ci Gbe (1.9 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Bodo-Mech-Kachari group within the Bodo-Garo branch.
Where is Bodo (India) spoken?
Bodo (India) is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in India (2.0 million).
Bodo (India) is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Bodo (India) is written in the Devanagari, Bangla and Latin scripts. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Garo.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 brx.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.