Hajong
Hajong is an Indo-European language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
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Hajong is an Indo-Aryan language with a possible Tibeto-Burman language substratum. It is spoken by approximately 80,000 ethnic Hajongs across the northeast of the Indian subcontinent, specifically in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in present-day India, and the divisions of Mymensingh and Sylhet in present-day Bangladesh. It is written in Bengali-Assamese script and Latin script. It has many Sanskrit loanwords. The Hajongs originally spoke a Tibeto-Burman language, but it later mixed with Assamese and Bengali.
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Words in Hajong
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | mangila* | |
| name | nam* | |
| eye | Cuk* | |
| ear | kan* | |
| nose | nak* | |
| tooth | dat* | |
| tongue | jibu* | |
| hand | hat* | |
| blood | rokto* | |
| bone | araN* | |
| skin | Camra* | |
| knee | atu* | |
| water | pani | |
| fire | jul* | |
| sun | bela* | |
| star | tara* | |
| stone | pathar* | |
| mountain | pahar* | |
| tree | gas* | |
| leaf | pat* | |
| night | rati* | |
| dog | kukul* | |
| fish | mas* | |
| one | ek* | |
| two | dui* | |
| I | moi* | |
| you | toi* | |
| we | amra* | |
| drink | kha* | |
| see | sawa* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- Naga PidginIndo-European69% alike
- BengaliIndo-European62% alike
- BishnupriyaIndo-European56% alike
- AssameseIndo-European50% alike
- Chitwania TharuIndo-European47% alike
- RajbanshiIndo-European46% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
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