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(Redirected from Amwi language) Austroasiatic language spoken in Bangladesh and India ‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. ›
War Language
Native toIndia, Bangladesh
RegionMeghalaya (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh)
Native speakers68,000 (2003-2011 census)
Language familyAustroasiatic
Dialects
  • Amwi
Language codes
ISO 639-3aml
Glottologwarj1242

War (also known as Waar or War-Jaintia) is an Austroasiatic language in the Khasic branch spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India.

It is not to be confused with Khasi War, a Khasi dialect spoken by the closely related War-Khyriam.

See also

References

  1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
  2. "War-Jaintia". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
  3. "ISO 639 Code Tables".
  4. Sidwell, Paul. 2018. The Khasian Languages: Classification, Reconstruction, and Comparative Lexicon. Languages of the World 58. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783862889143
  5. "The War-Jaintia in Bangladesh: a sociolinguistic survey" (PDF). Journal of Language Survey Reports. 2007. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
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