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Bhumij is an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Munda subfamily, related to Ho, Mundari, and Santali, primarily spoken by Bhumij peoples in the Indian states Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. [2] [3] As per the 2011 census, only 27,506 people out of 911,349 Bhumij people spoke Bhumij as their mother tongue, as most Bhumijas have shifted ...
Arunachal Pradesh is the state with the highest number of languages, with as many as 66 languages spoken there, [6] while West Bengal has the highest number of scripts, nine, and around 38 languages. The scripts that exist in Bengal are Ol Chicki (Santhal), Kol Ho, Barangh Kshiti, Lepcha, Sadri and Limbu besides Bengali, Urdu and Nepali. [7]
Bhumij is the language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho, Mundari and Santali, spoken mainly in the Indian states Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal. It is spoken by around 100,000 people in India. [22] Though some Bhumijs in West Bengal and Orissa are speaking Bengali and Oriya respectively.
In West Bengal, various prominent institutions backed the process of development of the language, but that resulted in inconsistencies in it. For example, Rajsekhar Basu and Ananda Bazaar Patrika tried to simplify Bengali spelling; but instead of rationalizing the spelling system, it aroused controversy over the authority of such bodies.
The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, Gaudi. [4] Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider Old Bengali to be intelligible to a certain extent, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old ...
The West Bengal Official Language Act, 1961 was an act of the legislature of the State of West Bengal, Republic of India, which accorded official status to the Bengali language for all state business, including legislation, except in the three hill subdivisions of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, and Kurseong of the existing Darjeeling district in which the Nepali language was also recognised. [1]
The following are the languages spoken in large and small numbers in the Indian State of West Bengal.Though the most spoken language in the land of West Bengal is the Bengali. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
According to the provisional results of the 2011 national census, West Bengal is the fourth-most-populous state in India with a population of 91,347,736 (7.55% of India's population). Bengalis , consisting of Bengali Hindus , Bengali Muslims , Bengali Christians and a few Bengali Buddhists , numbering around 78,698,852 comprise about 86.22% of ...