Bodo/Boro | |
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Mech | |
बर' | |
Native to | Northeast India |
Ethnicity | Bodo, Kachari, Mech |
Native speakers | 1.48 million (2011 census)[1] |
Devanagari (official) Bengali-Assamese (contemporary) Latin (Contemporary) Deodhai script (historically) | |
Official status | |
Official language in | India (Assam) |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | brx |
Glottolog | bodo1269 |
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Bodo (बर') or Boro is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken primarily by the Bodo people of Northeast India. It is official language of the Bodoland autonomous region and co-official language of the state of Assam in India.[2] It is also one of twenty two languages listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India.[3] The Bodo language has been written using Devanagari script since 1963. Some scholar believe that at ancient time boro language were written in Deodhai script which is now lost.