ISO 639-3 · anpanp
Indo-European family
Angika
अंगिका
Angika is a language of the Bihari branch (Indo-European), spoken in India and Nepal. Wikidata counts about 740,000 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Bihari language of India and Nepal”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
anp- Glottocode
angi1238- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 25.40, 87.10
- Wikipedia
- 52 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
4levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Angika · अंगिका |
|---|---|
| Also called | Angika language, anp |
| All speakers | 740,000 |
| Written in | Devanagari, Aṅga-lipi |
| Grammatical genders | 2 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Angika
The branches above Angika, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in India
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