Sino-Tibetan · ISO 639-3 grt
Garo Language A•chikku
Garo is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Bangla and Latin scripts.
Where Garo is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Garo
Language family
- Sino-Tibetan
- Brahmaputran
- Bodo-Garo
- Garo
Writing system
Bangla and Latin scripts
Related languages
About the Garo language
Garo (A•chikku) is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 465th most spoken language in the world — just behind Basque (1.0 million) and ahead of Farefare (1.0 million). It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family and, more precisely, to the Bodo-Garo group within the Bodo-Garo branch.
Where is Garo spoken?
Garo is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in India (746,838) and Bangladesh (123,148).
Share of the population that speaks Garo: India <0.1% (746,838) and Bangladesh <0.1% (123,148).
Garo is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Garo is written in the 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 Bodo (India).
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 grt.
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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.