Kurmukar

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A language of India

ISO 639-3
kfv
Alternate Names
Kamar, Karmakar, Karmokar, Kumbhakar, Kumhar, Umar
User Population

3,000 (2000 SIL).

Location

Assam state: Barpeta, Goalpara, and Dhubri districts; Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, and West Bengal states.

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Language Status

6b* (Threatened).

Classification
Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Eastern, Bengali-Assamese
Language Use

Also use Assamese [asm]. Also use English [eng]. Also use Hindi [hin].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Kurmukar
Writing

Latin script [Latn].

Other Comments

A dialect of Bengali [ben] which differs a lot from the standard (Singh et al 2003). Hindu.