Indo-European · ISO 639-3 rkt
Rangpuri Language অংপুরি
Rangpuri is an Indo-European language spoken by about 17 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Bangla and Devanagari scripts.
Where Rangpuri is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Rangpuri
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
- Kamrupa
- Kamta
- Rangpuri
Writing system
Bangla and Devanagari scripts
Related languages
About the Rangpuri language
Rangpuri (অংপুরি) is spoken by about 17 million people, which makes it the 78th most spoken language in the world — just behind Central Atlas Tamazight (17 million) and ahead of Khmer (17 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Kamta group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Rangpuri spoken?
Rangpuri is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Bangladesh (11 million) and India (6.1 million).
Share of the population that speaks Rangpuri: Bangladesh 6.5% (11 million) and India 0.4% (6.1 million).
Rangpuri is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Rangpuri is written in the Bangla and Devanagari scripts. 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 Surjapuri, Assamese, Bengali, Sylheti, Chittagonian, Rohingya and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 rkt.
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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.