Bookkeeping: Rajbanshi (Retired)

This entry has been retired and is featured here only for bookkeeping purposes. Either the entry has been replaced with one or more more accurate entries or it has been retired because it was based on a misunderstanding to begin with.

Retired in ISO 639-3: Split into Kamta (India) / Rangpuri (Bangladesh) [rkt] and Rajbanshi (Nepal) [rjs]

  • Change request: 2007-008
  • ISO 639-3: rjb
  • Name: Rajbanshi
  • Reason: split
  • Effective: 2008-01-14

Excerpt from change request document:

What has formerly been listed as Rajbanshi_rjb in Nepal, India and Bangladesh can more accurately be represented by using 3 different names and 2 different iso codes. Survey revealed 62-69% intelligibility of Nepal Rajbanshi by speakers of Rajbanshi in West Bengal, India. What is spoken in India is intelligible with the variety in Bangladesh and can share an iso code but it is proposed to give them separate main names.

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