Rohingya is spoken by about 2 million people. The least stable figure on this page, and not for the usual reasons: most speakers were displaced after 2017, roughly a million now live in the Cox's Bazar camps, and Myanmar has not counted them as a group. Published totals run from 1.8 to 2.5 million. It is also written three different ways - Hanifi, Arabic and Latin - with no agreed standard.
On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Urdu, Marathi and Punjabi (Shahmukhi). 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 Rohingya 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, 1,160 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 1,266 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.