Hajong language
| Hajong | |
|---|---|
| হাজং | |
| Pronunciation | [ha.dʑɔŋ] |
| Native to | India and Bangladesh |
| Region | Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal in India Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona and Sunamganj in Bangladesh |
| Ethnicity | Hajong |
Native speakers | 80,000 (2011) 8,000 in Bangladesh (no date) |
| Dialects |
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| Bengali-Assamese script, Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | haj |
| Glottolog | hajo1238 |
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.