Kokborok is spoken by about 1 million people. India's 2011 census, Tripura.
On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Rohingya, Meiteilon (Manipuri) and English. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.
Structurally, objects usually come before their verbs.
Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Kokborok sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,167 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 1,072 hours of study. Read how it works.
Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded; the difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.