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A grammar of Atong
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Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all Atong speakers are bilingual in Garo from an early age.

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"Even after more than twelve months of fieldwork in the area, it was impossible to estimate the number of speakers. New Atong-speaking villages are reportedly still being built, while at the same time Garo, a closely related and regionally important language, encroaches rapidly on a lot of existing Atong-speaking villages." (pg. 2)

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2014

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Spoken in the stream area of the Symsang river in the south Garo Hills District of Meghalaya in Northeast India, in adjacent areas in the West Khasi Hills, and reportedly in the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh as well.

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Speakers’s attitudes

"The Atongs have a rather negative image of their own language and are not comfortable speaking in front of strangers and non-Atong speakers..." (pg. 17)

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Orthography based on the Roman alphabet developed in 2006 by Seino van Breugel.

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Spoken in the stream area of the Symsang river in the south Garo Hills District of Meghalaya in Northeast India, in adjacent areas in the West Khasi Hills, and reportedly in the Mymensingh district of Bangladesh as well.

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Other languages used

Garo

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Education, religion, trade, communication with strangers and non-Atongs

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Year of info

2010

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25.2844,91.1755

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Vulnerable

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10,000

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4,600 in India.

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2009

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India

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Most

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Several thousand speakers

Year of info

2007

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India

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Meghalaya state, southeastern Garo hills

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Meghalaya state, southeastern Garo hills

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Garo

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