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Name: Bishnupriya

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Bishnupuriya; Bisna Puriya; Bishnupria Manipuri

Spoken in: India, Bangladesh

Number of speakers: 75,000 in India (1997). Population total all countries: 115,000 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 72899 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 115000 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: bpy

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)

Parent Subgroup: Bengali-Assamese; Bengali (beas)

Child Dialects: Rajar Gang; Ningthaunai (bpy-raj) Madai Gang; Leimanai (bpy-mad)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Vulnerable

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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