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Bodo

Tibeto-Burman language of the Bodo people of north-eastern India and Nepal
Intangible natural_language Q33223
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Summary

Bodo is a natural language[1]. Bodo draws 958 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #219 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: India[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4], indigenous language[5]
  • Subclass of: Tibeto-Burman[6]
  • Writing system: Devanagari[7]
  • Part of: Schedule languages of India[8]
  • Commons category: Boro language (India)[9]
  • Wikimedia language code: brx[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Boro language (India)[11]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 603,000[12], 1,482,929[13]
  • Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Bodo[14]
  • Native label: बोडो‎[15], बोडो भाषा‎[16]
  • UNESCO language status: 4 severely endangered[17]
  • Indigenous to: Bodo tribe[18], Assam[19], Goa[20], Meghalaya[21], Manipur[22], West Bengal[23]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BRX[24]
  • Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[25]
  • Category for films in this language: Category:Bodo-language films[26]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[27], WikiProject India[28], WikiProject Assam[29]
  • Wikimedia Incubator URL: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/brx[30], https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wt/brx[31], https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/brx[32]

Why It Matters

Bodo has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] Bodo is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Bodo has been cited as an influence by Sylheti[35], a natural language[36], in Bangladesh[37].

FAQs

Who did Bodo influence?

Bodo has been cited as an influence by Sylheti[35].

Related Entities

India

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . unesco.org. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Wikidata Toolkit. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → bodo-language
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: bodo-language, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289910730|bodo language (#289910730)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 29157, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
  3. 22w ago · MarisDreshmanisBot bot · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has characteristic → Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Bodo
    Aliases → —
    Local thumb → —
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Languages, WikiProject India, WikiProject Assam
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||fa, sh */ Add 2 multilingual descriptions extracted from Wikipedia article first sentences (universal multilingual maintenance — Q-walker v2.1)."
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