It is also used in secondary schools and in one university Some believe a script called Deodhai was used by the ancient Bodo people, however details of it have been lost.īodo has been used as a medium of instruction in primary schools in Bodo-speaking areas since 1963. It was first written by Christian missionary in the late 19th century. There are three main dialects of Bodo: Western Bodo, Eastern Bodo and Southern Bodo.īodo was formerly written with the Assamese or the Latin alphabets, and since 1963 it has been written with the Devanagari alphabet. Native speakers call it बर' राव (Boro Rao). It is also spoken in the Chandel district of Manipur state, the West Garo Hills and East Khasi Hills districts of Meghalaya, and in the of Cooch-Behar, Darjeeling, and Jalpaiguri districts West Bengal.īodo is also known as Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi or Meci. It is spoken in Bodoland, in the neighbouring districts of Darrang, Goalpara, Kamrup and Nagaon, and also in the Lakhimpur and Sivsagar districts in northeastern Assam. In 2011 there were 1.47 million speakers of Bodo in India, and another 4,380 in Nepal.īodo is a statutory language of provincial identity in Assam, and the official language of the Bodoland Territoral Region, an autonomous region in the northwest of Assam. It is spoken mainly in the states of Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya and West Bengal in the northeast of India, and also in the Jhapa district of Province No. Bodo is a member of the Sal branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
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