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Kamta (or Kamatapuri) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch. It is spoken in India, predominatly in the northern districts of West Bengal.

It is part of a wider dialect complex, viz. the KRNB lects, which also include Surjapuri, Rajbanshi (Nepal), and the Goalpariya dialects, which latter take an intermediate position between Kamta and Assamese. The Rangpuri variety in Bangladesh is mutually intelligble with Kamta, but is considered by its speakers a dialect of Bengali.

Since many speakers of Kamta are Rajbongshi people, it is also known as Rajbongshi or Rajbanshi; however, the term Rajbongshi/Rajbanshi is also used for other KRNB varieties and thus ambiguous.