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The Koch languages are a small group of Boro-Garo languages a sub-branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in Northeast India. Burling (2012) calls this the "Rabha group". Burling (2012) calls this the "Rabha group".
Koch is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Koch people of India and Bangladesh.It is primarily spoken in the Indian states of Meghalaya, West Bengal, and Lower Assam and in the northern parts of the country Bangladesh, where it serves as a major means of communication among the Koches (including Koch-Rajbongshi) and other ethnic groups in the region.
The Koch are a small trans-border ethnic group of Assam and Meghalaya in India and northern Bangladesh. [7] The group consists of nine matrilineal and strictly exogamous clans, with some of them preserving a hitherto sparsely documented Boro-Garo language called Koch, whereas others have switched to local varieties of Indo-Aryan languages. [8]
The linkage of the Boro–Garo languages with Konyak and Jingphaw languages suggest that proto-Boro-Garo entered Assam from somewhere to the northeast. [5] It has been proposed that the proto-Boro-Garo language was a lingua franca of different linguistic communities, not all of who were native speakers, [6] and that it began as a creolized lingua franca. [7]
Koch-Rajbanshi people speak Kamatapuri, [14] an Indo-Aryan language, likely due to language shift, and in the past they might have spoken Tibeto-Burman languages. The community is categorised as OBC in Assam and Bihar, and SC in West Bengal. [1] In Nepal they are considered part of the Plains Janjati.
The conservative U.S. political network led by Charles Koch has raised $70 million to fund political races with a key goal of stopping the former president from clinching the 2024 GOP nomination.
The Koch rule began with the appointment of Kamal Narayan (step-brother of Chilarai and Naranarayan) as the Dewan a couple of years after the establishment of the garrison. [51] Kamalnarayan established eighteen clans of Koch families that took hereditary roles in the state of Khaspur and who came to be known as Dheyans (after Dewan). [52]
The Facebook page of the group has 57,000 followers. Chan said he believed it was the basic right for Hong Kongers to promote their own language and culture, and the group could help foster social ...