Rengmitca language

{{Short description|Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Rengmitca

|nativename=

|states=Bangladesh

|region=Chittagong Hill Tracts

|ethnicity=

|speakers=<20

|date=2020

|ref={{Cite journal|last=Peterson|first=David A.|date=2020-12-01|title=The stem alternation in Rengmitca|journal=Himalayan Linguistics|volume=19|issue=2|doi=10.5070/h91150997|issn=1544-7502|doi-access=free}}

|familycolor=Sino-Tibetan

|fam2=Tibeto-Burman

|fam3=Central Tibeto-Burman (?)

|fam4=Kuki-Chin-Naga

|fam5=Kuki-Chin

|fam6=Khomic

|iso3=none

|glotto=reng1255

|glottorefname=Rengmitca

}}

Rengmitca is a critically endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh. It is distinct but closely related to the nearby languages Khumi and Mro. There are fewer than 30 speakers left as of 2014. Only 5 are completely fluent, all over the age of 60. But as of 2021 there are only 6 speakers of this language left, most of whom are over the age of 60.{{Cite news|last=Marma|first=U. She Thowai|title=Rengmitca: an ethnic language on the verge of extinction|url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2021/02/21/rengmitca-an-ethnic-language-on-the-verge-of-extinction|access-date=2021-02-21|work=bdnews24.com}}

Rengmitca is spoken to the northeast of Alikadam town in the southern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.Peterson, David A. 2015. An update on the status of Rengmitca. Paper presented at SoLE-4, Payap University.

Peterson (2017)Peterson, David. 2017. "On Kuki-Chin subgrouping." In Picus Sizhi Ding and Jamin Pelkey, eds. Sociohistorical linguistics in Southeast Asia: New horizons for Tibeto-Burman studies in honor of David Bradley, 189-209. Leiden: Brill. classifies Rengmitca as a Khomic language.