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Garo language

Garo language is one of the popular languages of India. It is spoken by majority of the people residing in Garo Hills in the state of Meghalaya. Garo language is also popular in several districts of the state of Assam like Dhubri, Goalpara, Kamrup, and the Darrang. This popular tribal language is also spoken in the neighbouring country of Bangladesh. Garo language uses Latin alphabet. This language also has a close association with Bodo language, the language is spoken by the Bodo tribal community, which is one of the most prominent communities of the Indian state of Assam. Garo language belongs to the Tibeto Burman language family.

In India Garo has about 1.15 million speakers, mainly in the Garo Hills district of Meghalaya state, and also in parts of Assam, Nagaland, Tripura and West Bengal states. It is a statutory provincial language in Meghalaya, and is taught in primary schools.

There are about 120,000 speakers of Garo in Bangladesh, mainly in the Dhaka and Sylhet divisions. The majority of speakers are literate in their language, although they write in the A'chick dialect, and speak in the A'beng dialect.

Garos became the main ethnic group of Tura i.e. western part of Meghalaya. To summarise we may conclude in the light of Rev. Sidney Endle’s opinion in respect of Garo migration. “The agros, a race obviously near the kin to the Kacharis, have a tradition that in the dim and the distant past their forefathers i.e. the nine headman, the offspring of the Hindu Fakir and the Tibetan women came down from the northern mountains and after a halt at Koch Bihar made their way to Jogighopa and thence across the Brahmaputra to Dolgoma and so finally into the Garo Hills4” 



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