Kachari
Kachari is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in India. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Kachari is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Boro-Garo branch that is spoken in Assam, India. With fewer than 60,000 speakers recorded in 1997, and the Asam 2001 Census reporting a literacy rate of 81% the Kachari language is currently ranked as threatened. Kachari is closely related to surrounding languages, including Tiwa, Rābhā, Kochi and Mechi.
While there are still living adult speakers, many children are not learning Kachari as their primary language, instead being assimilated into the wider Assamese speaking communities.
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Words in Kachari
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | muN* | |
| eye | mogon* | |
| nose | gontoN* | |
| tooth | hatai* | |
| tongue | salai* | |
| hand | akai7* | |
| blood | t3i7* | |
| bone | begeN* | |
| skin | bigur* | |
| liver | bika* | |
| water | d3i* | |
| fire | or* | |
| sun | san* | |
| star | hatorki* | |
| stone | ontai* | |
| tree | pipaN* | |
| night | hor* | |
| fish | na7* | |
| louse | tema* | |
| one | se7* | |
| two | n3i* | |
| I | aN* | |
| you | n3N* | |
| we | z3N* | |
| drink | l3N* | |
| hear | k3na* | |
| die | t3i* | |
| come | p3i* | |
| path | lama* | |
| new | g3dan* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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