Indo-European · ISO 639-3 ctg
Chittagonian Language চাঁটগাঁইয়া
Chittagonian is an Indo-European language spoken by about 13 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Bangla script.
Where Chittagonian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Chittagonian
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Indo-Aryan Eastern zone
- Oriya-Gauda-Kamrupa
- Gauda-Kamrupa
- Gauda-Banga
- Southeastern Bengali
- Chittagonian
Writing system
Bangla script
Related languages
About the Chittagonian language
Chittagonian (চাঁটগাঁইয়া) is spoken by about 13 million people, which makes it the 96th most spoken language in the world — just behind Sanaani Arabic (13 million) and ahead of Deccan (13 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Southeastern Bengali group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Chittagonian spoken?
Chittagonian is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Bangladesh (16 million).
Chittagonian is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Chittagonian is written in the Bangla script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Bengali, Sylheti, Rohingya, Assamese, Rangpuri, Surjapuri and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ctg.
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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.