Rengmitca | |
States: | Bangladesh |
Region: | Chittagong Hill Tracts |
Speakers: | <20 |
Date: | 2020 |
Ref: | [1] |
Familycolor: | Sino-Tibetan |
Fam2: | Tibeto-Burman |
Fam3: | Central Tibeto-Burman (?) |
Fam4: | Kuki-Chin-Naga |
Fam5: | Kuki-Chin |
Fam6: | Khomic |
Iso3: | none |
Glotto: | reng1255 |
Glottorefname: | Rengmitca |
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.