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'Garo' is the language of the majority of the people of the Hills which bear their name in the state of Meghalaya of India. The script used is the Roman script. Garo has a close affinity to Bodo, the language of one of the dominant communities of he neighbouring state of Assam.

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Dialects

Statistics

See also

References

External links

Dialects

A'beng (A'bengya, Am'beng), A'chick (A'chik), A'we, Chisak, Dacca, Ganching, Kamrup, Matchi. The Achik dialect predominates among several inherently intelligible dialects. The Abeng dialect is in Bangladesh. Closest to Koch.

Statistics

Garo(Garrow, Mande);575,000 in India (1997). 102,000 in Bangladesh (1993). Total population in all countries: 677,000.

See also

★ Garo people

★ Garo Hills

References

#''The Ethnologue, 13th Edition, Barbara F. Grimes, Editor, 1996, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.''

External links

★ East Garo Hills District official website

★ West Garo Hills District official website

★ South Garo Hills District official website

★ Ethnologue entry for Garo