
It was selected out of many others because the north-eastern region of Garo Hills was where rapid growth in the number of educated Garo people was taking place.
we into writing, initially using the Bengali script. Towards the end of the 19th century, the American Baptist missionaries put the north-eastern dialect of Garo called A Being closely related to each other, these languages have many features in common and one can easily recognise the similarities even from a surface-level observation of a given data of words from these languages. This includes languages such as Garo language, Boro, Kokborok, Dimasa, Rabha, Atong, Tiwa, and Koch. The Boro-Garo subgroup is one of the longest recognised and most coherent subgroups of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Garo language belongs to the Baric group, a member of the Tibeto-Burmese subgroup of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
Mymensingh district, Tangail, Jamalpur, Sherpur, Netrokona, Gazipur, Sunamgonj, Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Dhaka, Gazipur, Bangladesh. Jalpaiguri district and Koch Bihar district, West Bengal. Sadar subdivision, West Tripura district, Tripura.
Kamalpur and Kailasahar subdivisions, North Tripura district, Tripura.Udaipur subdivision, South Tripura district, Tripura.Goalpara district, Kamrup district, Sivasagar, Karbi Anglong district, western Assam.According to the 2001 census, there are about 889,000 Garo speakers in India alone another 130,000 are found in Bangladesh.Įthnologue lists the following locations for Garo. It is also spoken in certain areas of the neighbouring Bangladesh. chikku, is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the Northeast Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Tripura.