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Garo (also spelled as Garrow, or else known by the people's own name for themselves, Mande) is the language of the majority of the people of the Garo Hills in the Indian state of Meghalaya. Garo is also used in Kamrup, Dhubri, Goalpara and the Darrang districts of Assam, India as well as in neighboring Bangladesh. Garo uses the Latin script and has a close affinity to Bodo, the language of one of the dominant communities of the neighbouring state of Assam. Dialects include A’beng (A'bengya, Am'beng), A’chick (A'chik), A’we, Chisak, Dacca, Ganching, Kamrup, Matchi. The Achik dialect predominates among several inherently intelligible dialects. The Abeng dialect in Bangladesh is not mutually intelligible. The Department of Garo, the only one of its kind in the world, was established by popular demand in 1996 at the inception of North Eastern Hill University. The Department documented in audio and videotapes parts of A’chick (Garo) epic poetry of Katta Agana, the legend of Dikki & Bandi, some folktales, folksongs, and traditional oral poetry. The language is written in Bengali as well as Latin script.
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