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Kamta
Kamatapuri
Native toIndia
RegionWest Bengal
Native speakers
5,000,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3rkt

Kamta (or Kamatapuri) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch. It is spoken in India, predominatly in the northern districts of West Bengal.

It is part of a wider dialect complex, viz. the KRNB lects, which also include Surjapuri, Rajbanshi (Nepal), and the Goalpariya dialects, which latter take an intermediate position between Kamta and Assamese. The Rangpuri variety in Bangladesh is mutually intelligble with Kamta, but is considered by its speakers a dialect of Bengali.[3]

Since many speakers of Kamta are Rajbongshi people, it is also known as Rajbongshi or Rajbanshi; however, the term Rajbongshi/Rajbanshi is also used for other KRNB varieties and thus ambiguous.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ Kamta at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Toulmin 2009
  3. ^ a b Toulmin 2009.

References

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  • Toulmin, Mathew W. S. (2009). From linguistic to sociolinguistic reconstruction: the Kamta historical subgroup of Indo-Aryan. Pacific Linguistics 604. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-604.