It is also spoken in Subhapara, Dhunchipara, and Panchayatpara hillocks on India-Bhutan border in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal (Ethnologue).

Toto is listed as a critically endangered language by UNESCO, with perhaps 1,000 speakers.

They can be classified: There are eight diphthongs realized in Toto, these are: The following minimal pairs establish the phonetics status of the vowel: With regards to consonants, Toto has an inventory of seven sonorants (nasals and liquids) and twelve obstruents (stops and fricative), eight of which are contrastive in voicing.

Prior to the publication of this script, Dhaniram Toto and other members of the community (whose literacy rate as per sample survey carried out in 2003 was just 33.64 per cent) penned books and poems in the Bengali script.

[4] The Toto alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 2021 with the release of version 14.0.