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This page seems like it's more about the alphabet than the actual language. There's no mention of syntax, phonology, phonetics, morphology, or even the language family. In order to be considered more of a scholarly article, at least some of the basic linguistic information (typological and genetic classification, etc.) needs to be added.
It has been re-inserted again because Rohingya vowel sound can not be explained without reference to English vowel sound. However, sub-headings are removed and revised to clearly reveal sound camparison links between the two languages.
Dear Mr. Ragib: I do not really understand why you need to remove the Rohingya and English comparison reference. Please explain. Rohingya Language can not be practcally explained without reference to another commonly known langauge which is in fact English. When you have removed the portion the remaining section became orphan with missing references.
Dear Mr. Ragib: What is Bama (in your addition)? Appreciated if you can explain it.
Dear Mr. Ragib:
Rohingya people speak a dialect of Chittagonian Bengali lanuagage or they know Bengali literature and they have a lot of interest in it even to learn Bengali Alphabets. Rohingya people study in Farsi, Urdu, Arabic, Burmese and English only. All religious studies are done in Farsi, Urdu and Arabic. The national language Burmese is used in all goverment schools and English is taught as second language in school. Rohingya people speak Burmese and Urdu only besides their own Rohingya Dialect.
Rohingya people neither understand Bengali dialect nor Bengali people understand Rohingya dialect. How many Rohingya people were put in Jail in Bangladesh because they could not pretend as Bengali because of the language. They try to Escape to other countries through Bangladesh to avoid various types of extreme persecutions in their own country Burma. It is very well known that about 250,000 Rohingyas crossed into Bangladesh border as refugees in 1978.
I have created the Chittagonian language article. The description of sounds in this Rohingya language article are very good, and of course Rohingya is a dialect of Chittagonian and the descriptions given apply to both identically, so I was wondering whether I should copy and paste the sections on sounds into the chittagonian language article? Please advise, Tanzeel 17:49, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
There are Malaysia . Indonesia ... Brunei ...they are spoken the same language.. Are those the same nation... Persian language is spoken in Iran . Afghanistan ... Tajikistan ...Are those all the same nation? German language is spoken in Germany ...Luxemburg..Lencheistein... Switzerland ... Austria . Are those the same nation?In Scandinavian countries such like Norway, Sweden and Denmark are spoken the same.Are those the same nation? Spanish is spoken in 21 countries in Latin America...South and North America...Are those all from Spain or Spanish nation?? Portuguese is spoken in Brazil ...Is Brazilian from Portugal ....? Turkish is spoken in Turkey . Turkmenistan …Azerbijan..Kirgisitan.. Uzbekistan …Kazakistan Cypres.etc Are those all the same?. We know very well who is Bengali or who is Rohingya Arakani? By their dialect...language......communication....may be for some people or some nation it is difficult......to identify between ‘ donkey and horse’ so they think they are the same. We have our own dialect in communication so we can realize and identify very well which Bangladeshi people can’t follow anymore. The character of Bangladeshi people are easily identified by their language. script....communication...culture etc... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.116.101.157 ( talk) 08:45, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
I have done a major rewrite to eliminate much (though far from all) of the unintelligible or misleading descriptions; I have also tried to eliminate the POV problem indicated by the previous commenter. To whoever wrote the long description of sounds I have deleted: I am sorry, I know you put a lot of work into it, but it was completely useless. I have studied many languages (and have a graduate degree in linguistics, for what that's worth) and am used to deciphering unprofessional descriptions, but I could not make head nor tail of such terms as "straight sound formations and circular sound formations," "normal (soft) mode or stressed (hard) mode," and "four ways of extending the sound." A phonology section will have to be added by someone who knows how to use IPA and describe sounds without vague references to English (which is irrelevant to Rohingya). I have basically left the grammar section alone, although it is very badly done, because 1) some information can be gotten from it and 2) I ran out of steam. But again, someone will have to revise it using accepted terminology and methods. (For instance, talk of "round-fatty" and "flat-thin" objects is not very helpful without a thorough discussion of noun classification.) Languagehat ( talk) 13:36, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
This article still needs a lot of work. The relationship of this language/dialect to Chittagonian must be established, since it seems they are mutually intelligible. Ethnologue has recently decided to classify cit and rhg as 2 different languages; however, we need scholarly sources on this. Also, there has to be IPA or a form of Indic transliteration in this article, preferably the former; the current orthography used cannot possibly be standard or even widespread as Rohingya is mostly a spoken language. I'm not even sure this orthography needs elaboration. The grammar section should also be condensed. I'm planning on working on this rewrite, but if anyone has access to reliable sources then I'd love their help. Mar de Sin Speak up! 04:01, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
I am conducting a field methods class on Rohingya. We begin this coming Tuesday. We can add materials as we build our analysis. For starters, just listening to the youtube.com videos about vowels in Rohingya I can hear that this is a tone language and the "accented" vowels have a higher tone than the "unaccented" vowels. The language also contrasts long and short vowels and oral and nasal vowels. The long vowels and diphthongs can carry contour tones. The possibilities are: neutral, rising, and falling. Either I or a student from the class could provide further information as the semester progresses. I understand we are not allowed however to do original research, so must our results first be published somewhere so we can cite them?
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My browser warns that the website rohingyalanguagefoundation.com (used for references 4 and 9) contains malware and should be avoided. The links should probably be removed and replaced with other sources (offline ones, if necessary). — Aɴɢʀ ( talk) 09:49, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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I was wondering whether there is any English translation available. The resources on this language are undoubtedly not very large, due to the relatively small number of speakers and Burmese government repression. Omniglot has no sample Rohingya text (as of now). -- 188.167.141.68 ( talk) 13:11, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
When was the common ancestor of Chittagonian and "Rohingya"? -- Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii ( talk) 01:49, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
What percentage of Rakhine Bengalis actually speak Rohingya compared to other Bengali dialects? -- Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii ( talk) 01:54, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
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I'm guessing "used to very closed people" in the verb section is supposed to be "very intimate/familiar"? Matthewmorrone1 ( talk) 15:14, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
i like the langueged 202.191.106.93 ( talk) 10:44, 22 October 2023 (UTC)