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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>Chittagonian language and alphabet</title> <meta name="description" content="Chittagonian is a Eastern Bengali-Assamese language spoken by about 13 million people in southeastern Bangladesh." />  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-WB7PSHBG');</script>  <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.omniglot.com/images/logos/omniglot_thumbnail.jpg" /> <meta property="og:type" content="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Omniglot-100430558332117/posts/" /> <link href="/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="https://the.gatekeeperconsent.com/cmp.min.js" data-cfasync="false"></script> <script async src="//www.ezojs.com/ezoic/sa.min.js"></script> <script> window.ezstandalone = window.ezstandalone || {}; ezstandalone.cmd = ezstandalone.cmd || []; </script></head> <body> <div id="header">  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WB7PSHBG" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <p><a href="/index.htm"><img src="/images/logos/header_omniglot.png" width="600" height="70" alt="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages" /></a></p> <ul> <li><a href="/index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/index.htm">Alphabets</a></li> <li><a href="/conscripts/index.htm">Constructed scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/languages.htm">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/language/phrases/phraseindex.htm">Phrases</a></li> <li><a href="/language/numbers/index.htm">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/language/ml.htm">Multilingual Pages</a></li> <li><a href="/search.htm">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/news/index.htm">News</a></li> <li><a href="/about.htm">About</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul></div> <div id="bodybox"> <span style="text-align:center;"><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-162"></div> <script> ezstandalone.cmd.push(function() { ezstandalone.showAds(162); }); </script></span><div id="body"> <h1>Chittagonian (চিটাইঙ্গা)</h1> <p>Chittagonian is a member of the Eastern Bengali-Assamese branch of the Indo-Aryan language family. It is spoken by about 13 million people in the Chittagong Division in southeast Bangladesh, particularly in the city of Chittagong, and in the Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari districts. </p> <p><iframe src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d944827.7568810926!2d91.2595628800021!3d22.32591930681041!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x30acd8a64095dfd3%3A0x5015cc5bcb6905d9!2sChattogram%2C%20Bangladesh!5e0!3m2!1sen!2suk!4v1634130389233!5m2!1sen!2suk" width="400" height="300" style="border:0;" allowfullscreen="" loading="lazy"></iframe> </p> <p>Chittagonian is also known as Chatgaiyan Buli, Chatgaya or Chittagonian Bengali. It is closely related to <a href="rohingya.htm">Rohingya</a> and is more or less mutually intelligible with it. </p> <p>Chittagonian vocabulary comes mainly from Sanskrit, with quite a few words borrowed from Arabic, Persian and Turkish, as well as English and Portuguese. </p> <p>There are many songs in Chittagonian, and it is used to some extent on the TV and radio. </p> <p>Chittagonian is written with the Bengali alphabet. There are ways to write it with the Arabic and Latin alphabets. However, few Chittagonian speakers are literate in their language and tend to write in Bengali instead. </p> <h2>Bengali alphabet for Chittagonian</h2> <p><img src="../images/writing/chittagonian_bg.gif" width="598" height="1005" alt="Bengali alphabet for Chittagonian" /> </p> <h2>Latin alphabet for Chittagonian</h2> <p><img src="../images/writing/chittagonian_lat.gif" width="601" height="582" alt="Latin alphabet for Chittagonian" /> </p> <h2 class="right">Arabic alphabet for Chittagonian</h2> <p class="right"><img src="../images/writing/chittagonian_arb.gif" width="572" height="540" alt="Arabic alphabet for Chittagonian" /> </p> <p><a href="../charts/chittagonian.xls">Download alphabet charts for Chittagonian</a> (Excel) </p> <p><em><a href="../charts/chittagonian.pdf">Details of the Chittagonian alphabets</a> provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF) and Biswajit Mandel</em> </p> <h2>Sample text</h2> <p>বিয়াক মানুশ ইজ্‌জত এদ‌্দে অ়কর ই়শাবে আজাদ আর উ়য়াইন্‌না অ়ইয়েরে ফ়য়দা অ়য়। ই়তারাত্‌তু আহল এদ্‌দে বিবেক আছে ; এতল্‌লায় এজ্‌জন আরেজ্‌জনর উ়য়ারে ভাইয়ুর নান বেভার গরন দরহার। </p> <h3>Transliteration</h3> <p>Biyak manuś ijjôt edde ókôr íśabe ajad ar úyainnaa óiyere fôyda óy. Ítarattu ahôl edde bibek ase; etôllay ejjôn arejjônôr úyare bhaiyur nan bebhar gôrôn dôrhar. </p> <p>Hear a <a href="../soundfiles/udhr/udhr_chittagonian.mp3">recording of this text</a> by Syed Mohammad Moin Uddin </p> <p><audio controls> <source src="../soundfiles/udhr/udhr_chittagonian.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"/> <embed height="50" width="100" src="../soundfiles/udhr/udhr_chittagonian.mp3"/> </audio> </p> <h3>Translation</h3> <p>All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.<br /> <em>(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)</em> </p> <p><em>Details supplied by Biswajit Mandal (biswajitmandal[dot]bm90[at]gmail[dot]com)</em> </p> <h2>Sample videos in Chittagonian</h2> <div class="intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wuKlSuD1uls" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <div class="intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5YpJ98lTP3c" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <h2>Links</h2> <p>Information about Chittagonian<br /> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagonian_language">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagonian_language</a><br /> <a href="https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ctg">https://www.ethnologue.com/language/ctg</a><br /> <a href="https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chit1275">https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/chit1275</a><br /> <a href="https://wikitravel.org/en/Chittagonian_phrasebook">https://wikitravel.org/en/Chittagonian_phrasebook</a> </p> <h2>Indo-Aryan languages</h2> <p><a href="/writing/awadhi.htm">Awadhi</a>, <a href="/writing/assamese.htm">Assamese</a>, <a href="/writing/bagri.htm">Bagri</a>, <a href="/writing/bengali.htm">Bengali</a>, <a href="/writing/bhili.htm">Bhili</a>, <a href="/writing/bishnupriyamanipuri.htm">Bishnupriya Manipuri</a>, <a href="/writing/braj.htm">Braj</a>, <a href="/writing/chakma.htm">Chakma</a>, <a href="/writing/chhattisgarhi.htm">Chhattisgarhi</a>, <a href="/writing/chittagonian.htm">Chittagonian</a>, <a href="/writing/desiya.htm">Desiya</a>, <a href="/writing/dhatki.htm">Dhatki</a>, <a href="/writing/thaana.htm">Dhivehi</a>, <a href="/writing/dhundari.htm">Dhundari</a>, <a href="/writing/fijihindi.htm">Fiji Hindi</a>, <a 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