Also Known As:
Garrow, Mande
Dialects & Varieties
- Abeng
- Achik
- Chisak
- Dacca
- A'we
- Ganching
- Kamrup
- A'beng
- A'chick
- Matchi
Recent Resources
Brief sketch grammar of the Garo language
A Garo-English lexicon
Vulnerable
80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
700,000
Native Speakers Worldwide
Domains of Use
Domain Of Use 1
Used in most domains except for official ones such as government, mass media, education etc.
1
Transmission
Transmission -1
All members of the community, including children, speak the language.
-1
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Burling, Robbins. 2003. "Garo." In The Sino-Tibetan Languages, edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy J. Lapolla. 387-400. Curzon Press.
Bibliography of Locations:
2005. "The World Atlas of Language Structures." edited by Bernard Comrie et al. Oxford University Press.
Bibliography of Context:
Burling, Robbins. 2003. "Garo." In The Sino-Tibetan Languages, edited by Graham Thurgood and Randy J. Lapolla. 387-400. Curzon Press.