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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

  1. ^ a b Peterson, David A. (1 December 2020). “The stem alternation in Rengmitca”. Himalayan Linguistics. 19 (2): 80. doi:10.5070/h91150997. ISSN 1544-7502.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ “One man is trying to save a language in Bangladesh with only six native speakers”. Global Voices. 21 February 2024.
  4. ^ Peterson, David A. 2015. An update on the status of Rengmitca. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.
  5. ^ 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

  • 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.