Rabha language

Rabha
Rabha khurang/krou
ৰাভা
Native to	India
Region	Assam, West Bengal,Meghalaya
Native speakers	139,986 (2011 census)[1]
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Tibeto-Burman Sal Boro–Garo Kocha Rabha
Dialects	Maituri Rongdani Kocha
Writing system	Assamese script, Bengali script, english
Language codes
ISO 639-3	rah
Glottolog	rabh1238
ELP	Rabha
Map of where Rabha is spoken

Rabha is a Sino-Tibetan language of Northeast India. The two dialects, Maituri and Rongdani, are divergent enough to cause problems in communication. According to U.V. Joseph,^[2] there are three dialects, viz. Róngdani or Róngdania, Maituri or Maituria and Kocha (page ix). Joseph writes that "the Kocha dialect, spoken along the northern bank of the Brahmaputra, is highly divergent and is not intelligible to a Róngdani or Maituri speaker" (page ix). Joseph also writes that "[t]he dialect variations between Róngdani and Maituri, both of which are spoken on the southern bank of the Brahmaputra, in the Goalpara district of Assam and belong to the northern slopes of Meghalaya, are minimal" (pages ix-x). He concludes the paragraph on dialectal variation with: "The Róngdani-Maituri dialectal differences become gradually more marked as one moves further west" (page x).

In 2007, U.V. Joseph published a grammar of Rabha with Brill in their series Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region.^[3]