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Typological features of Tanchangya House

 Front view of Tanchangya house The Tanchangya tribe in Bandarban builds a unique type of house, which is now increasingly disappearing and being replaced by Bangali-style houses.  Their unique characteristic is that one wall of the house in the main living area is built…

Bishu

”Bishu is a part of our identity and a representation of our diverse cultures“ To some, it is Sangrai, to some it is Biju, to some it is Baisu. As for Tanchangyas, we call it Bishu. But no matter by…

In Search History of the Tanchangya Language

a. Introduction The Tanchangya language is one of the eleven indigenous languages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh and an ethnic group in India and Myanmar. It is categorized under Indo-Aryan languages, a sub-group of the Indo-Iranian branch…

Ethnicity of Chakma and Tanchangya

The following article was published in Journal of Applied Science & Social Science, Vol. II, No I. March –April 2011 (ISSN 2229 3205) By Rupak Debnath Chakmas are the major ethnic group in the Chittagong Hill Tracts; outside the Hill…