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Countries

Countries
Assam, India

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Assam, India

Second Language
-

Speaking Continents
Asia

Minority Language
-

Regulated By
-

Interesting Facts
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.

Similar To
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
45 25

Phonology

How Many Vowels
20 17

How Many Consonants
25 15

Scripts
Devanagari

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
5 4

Time Taken to Learn
34 weeks 12

Greetings

Hello
नमस्कार

Thank You
धन्यवाद

How Are You?
Nungni khabora ma?

Good Night
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)

Good Evening
बोडो

Good Afternoon
अन्धानि बार

Good Morning
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)

Please
अननानै (Onnanwi)

Sorry
दु:खित

Bye
Lwrbw

I Love You
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)

Excuse Me
दु:खित

Dialects

Dialect 1
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect

Where They Speak
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00 57

Dialect 2
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect

Where They Speak
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00 59

Dialect 3
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect

Where They Speak
Assam, India, Nepal

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00 52

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.60 million 89

Speaking Population
0.01 % 62

Native Speakers
0.60 million 83

Second Language Speakers
1.50 million 59

Native Name
बड़ो (boṛo)

Alternative Names
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci

French Name
bodo

German Name
Bodo

Pronunciation
[bɔɽo]

Ethnicity
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)

History

Origin
1913

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
-

Standard Forms
-

Language Position
30 28

Signed Forms
Signed Bodo

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
br

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
brx

ISO 639 2/B
brx

ISO 639 3
brx

ISO 639 6
brx

Glottocode
bodo1269

Linguasphere
59-AAB

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Know Alphabets in Bodo

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Bodo Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Bodo Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Bodo. Bodo phonology gives Bodo vowels and Bodo consonants. There are 20 vowels and 25 consonants in Bodo language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Bodo is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Bodo language is given in detail in this section.

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Want to explore all Bodo countries? About Bodo language serves you with all Bodo Speaking Countries. Countries that use Bodo as official language are called as Bodo countries.

  • Countries that use Bodo as their National Language are: Assam, India.

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  • Countries that use Bodo as second language are: .

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Learn Bodo greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Bodo Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Bodo language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Bodo language.Learn Bodo greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: नमस्कार
  • Thank you: धन्यवाद
  • Good Morning: मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
  • Good Evening: बोडो
  • Good Afternoon: अन्धानि बार

All Bodo Language Codes

Get to know all Bodo language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Bodo Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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