War language

War (also known as Waar or War-Jaintia)^[3] is an Austroasiatic language in the Khasic branch spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India.^[4]

War Language
Native to	India, Bangladesh
Region	Meghalaya (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh)
Native speakers	68,000 (2003-2011 census)[1][2]
Language family	Austroasiatic Khasi-Palaungic Khasic War Language
Dialects	Amwi
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aml
Glottolog	warj1242

It is not to be confused with Khasi War, a Khasi dialect spoken by the closely related War-Khyriam.^[5]

See also

• Languages of India

References

1. "Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011". www.censusindia.gov.in. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
2. "War-Jaintia". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
3. "ISO 639 Code Tables".
4. Sidwell, Paul. 2018. The Khasian Languages: Classification, Reconstruction, and Comparative Lexicon. Languages of the World 58. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783862889143
5. "The War-Jaintia in Bangladesh: a sociolinguistic survey" (PDF). Journal of Language Survey Reports. 2007. Retrieved 2024-01-28.