Ruga language

Garo dialect of India
Ruga
Native toIndia
Native speakers
10 (2019)[1]
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Language codes
ISO 639-3ruh
Glottologruga1238
ELPRuga

Ruga is a Garo dialect, an Sino-Tibetan language that spoken in the East Garo Hills district and West Garo Hills, Meghalaya, India. Today, people who identify themselves as Ruga have shifted to Garo and only a few elderly native Ruga speakers remain.[1]

Ruga Tribe

Ruga people identify as a sub-tribe of a GaroTribe. Ruga people have their own distinct identity. Ruga language shares similarities with other Garo languages. It is closely related to Atong language (Sino-Tibetan) and Koch language.Ruga speakers have lost their language and hence, they have shifted to Am·beng dialect. They mostly reside along the valleys of Bugai River and in Rugapara areas of Gasuapara block under South Garo Hills.

References

  1. ^ a b Ruga at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
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