Rengmitca language

Rengmitca
Rengmitca
Native to	Bangladesh
Region	Chittagong Hill Tracts
Native speakers	<20 (2020)
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Central Tibeto-Burman (?) Kuki-Chin-Naga Kuki-Chin Khomic Rengmitca; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	reng1255

Rengmitca is a critically endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh. It is distinct but closely related to the nearby languages Khumi and Mro. There are fewer than 30 speakers left as of 2014. Only 5 are completely fluent, all over the age of 60.^[1] But as of 2021 there are only 6 speakers of this language left, most of whom are over the age of 60.^[2]

Rengmitca is spoken to the northeast of Alikadam town in the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.^[3]

Peterson (2017)^[4] classifies Rengmitca as a Khomic language.

References

^ ^a ^b Peterson, David A. (2020-12-01). "The stem alternation in Rengmitca". Himalayan Linguistics. 19 (2). doi:10.5070/h91150997. ISSN 1544-7502.
^ Marma, U. She Thowai. "Rengmitca: an ethnic language on the verge of extinction". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2021-02-21.
^ Peterson, David A. 2015. An update on the status of Rengmitca. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.
^ Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill.

Sources

Peterson, David A. 2013. "Rengmitca: The most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh." In Nathan W. Hill and Thomas Owen-Smith, eds. Trans-Himalayan linguistics: Historical and descriptive linguistics of the Himalayan area, 313–327. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Peterson, David A. 2014. The dynamics of Rengmitca's endangerment. Paper presented at SoLE-3, Yunnan Nationalities University.