Tanchangya
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Tanchangya may refer to:
- the Tanchangya peopleTanchangya peopleThe Tanchangya people are an indigenous people in southeastern Bangladesh. There are 13 indigenous ethnic communities living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts among the 45 ethnic communities in Bangladesh. ‘Tanchangya’ is the one of them. The word “Tong” means Hill and “Taugya” means Jhum . So, the...
- the Tanchangya languageTanchangya languageTanchangya is an Indo-European language of Indo-Iranian sub-family, part of the Southeastern Bengali–Assamese branch of Eastern Indo-Aryan language group. Tanchangya is spoken by Tanchangya people. It is closely related to Chakma language, Bengali, Chittagonian, Assamese, Sylheti, Bishnupriya...