Rohingya

Rohingya Rohingya Language Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0

Eastern Indo-Aryan language

Rohingya is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken primarily by the Rohingya people, who are from Rakhine State of Myanmar. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Bengali–Assamese branch, and is closely related to the Chittagonian language spoken in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya, Chakma and Chittagonian languages have a high degree of mutual intelligibility.

Also known as...Rohingyalish and Rohingya language
World Asia
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