| Rengmitca | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Bangladesh |
| Region | Chittagong Hill Tracts |
Native speakers | <20 (2020)1 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | reng1255 |
Rengmitca is a critically endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh. It is distinct but closely related to the nearby languages Khumi and Mro. There are fewer than 30 speakers left as of 2014. Only 5 are completely fluent, all over the age of 60.1 But as of 2021 there are only 6 speakers of this language left, most of whom are over the age of 60.2 It lacks a written script.3
Rengmitca is spoken to the northeast of Alikadam town in the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.4
Peterson (2017)5 classifies Rengmitca as a Khomic language.
References
References
- Peterson, David A. (1 December 2020). "The stem alternation in Rengmitca". Himalayan Linguistics. 19 (2): 80. doi:10.5070/h91150997. ISSN 1544-7502.
- Marma, U. She Thowai (21 February 2021). "Rengmitca: an ethnic language on the verge of extinction". Bdnews24.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021.
- "One man is trying to save a language in Bangladesh with only six native speakers". Global Voices. 21 February 2024.
- Peterson, David A. 2015. An update on the status of Rengmitca. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.
- Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.
Sources
Sources
- Peterson, David A. 2013. "Rengmitca: The most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh." In Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith, eds. Trans-Himalayan linguistics: Historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area, 313–327. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Peterson, David A. 2014. The dynamics of Rengmitca's endangerment. Paper presented at SoLE-3, Yunnan Nationalities University.