War language

{{Short description|Austroasiatic language spoken in Bangladesh and India}}

{{Infobox language

| name = War Language

| states = India, Bangladesh

| region = Meghalaya (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh)

| speakers = {{sigfig|67,558|2}}

| date = 2003-2011 census

| ref = {{Cite web |title=Statement 1: Abstract of speakers' strength of languages and mother tongues - 2011 |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220418051441/https://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language_MTs.html |archive-date=April 18, 2022 |access-date=2018-07-07 |website=www.censusindia.gov.in |publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aml|title=War-Jaintia|work=Ethnologue|access-date=2018-07-10|language=en}}

| familycolor = Austroasiatic

| fam2 = Khasi-Palaungic

| fam3 = Khasic

| dia1 = Amwi

| iso3 = aml

| glotto = warj1242

| glottorefname = War-Jaintia

}}

War (also known as Waar or War-Jaintia){{cite web|title=ISO 639 Code Tables|url=https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/639/data}} is an Austroasiatic language in the Khasic branch spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India.Sidwell, Paul. 2018. The Khasian Languages: Classification, Reconstruction, and Comparative Lexicon. Languages of the World 58. Munich: Lincom Europa.

{{ISBN|9783862889143}}

It is not to be confused with Khasi War, a Khasi dialect spoken by the closely related War-Khyriam.{{cite journal |title=The War-Jaintia in Bangladesh: a sociolinguistic survey |journal=Journal of Language Survey Reports |date=2007 |url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/79/53/59/79535906550941680707249031689108396591/silesr2007_013.pdf |access-date=2024-01-28}}