Indo-European · ISO 639-3 rhg
Rohingya Language Ruáingga
Rohingya is an Indo-European language spoken by about 1.8 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Hanifi Rohingya, Latin and Myanmar scripts.
Where Rohingya is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Rohingya
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
- Rohingya
Writing system
Hanifi Rohingya, Latin, Myanmar and Perso-Arabic scripts
Related languages
About the Rohingya language
Rohingya (Ruáingga) is spoken by about 1.8 million people, which makes it the 337th most spoken language in the world — just behind Mende (Sierra Leone) (1.8 million) and ahead of Kalanga (1.7 million). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Gauda-Banga group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Rohingya spoken?
Rohingya is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Myanmar (977,960) and Bangladesh (894,094).
Share of the population that speaks Rohingya: Myanmar 1.7% (977,960) and Bangladesh 0.5% (894,094).
Rohingya is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Rohingya is written in the Hanifi Rohingya, Latin, Myanmar and 1 more 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 Bengali, Sylheti, Chittagonian, Assamese, Rangpuri, Surjapuri and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 rhg.
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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.