Rengmitca is a critically-endangered
Kuki-Chin
The Kuki-Chin languages (also called Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of 50 or so Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh. Most speakers of the ...
language of
Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
. 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.
But as of 2021 there are only 6 speaker of this language are left, most of whom are over the age of 60.
Rengmitca is spoken to the northeast of
Alikadam town in the southern
Chittagong Hill Tracts
The Chittagong Hill Tracts ( bn, পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম, Parbotto Chottogram), often shortened to simply the Hill Tracts and abbreviated to CHT, are group of districts within the Chittagong Division in southeast ...
of Bangladesh.
[Peterson, David A. 2015. An update on the status of Rengmitca. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.]
Peterson (2017)
[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.] classifies Rengmitca as a
Khomic language.
References
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.
External links
Rediscovery of Rengmitca language in Bandarban
Kuki-Chin languages
Languages of Bangladesh
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