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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 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".
Rabha is a Sino-Tibetan language of Northeast India.The two dialects, Maitori and Rongdani, are divergent enough to cause problems in communication. According to U.V. Joseph, [2] there are three dialects, viz. Rongdani or Rongdania, Maitori or Maitoria and Kocha (page ix).
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 family; Koch people (or Koche), an ethnic group originally from the ancient Koch kingdom in north east India Koch languages, Sino-Tibetan language family Koch language, a language spoken in India and Bangladesh; Koch, an alternate name of the Rabha people, in northeast India and surrounding countries Rabha language, their language
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