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{{Infobox language
| name = Varendri
| altname = bôrendri
| nativename = বরেন্দ্রী
| state = [[Bangladesh]], [[India]]
| region = [[Rajshahi Division|Rajshahi]], [[Malda district|Malda]]
| speakers = ?
| familycolor = Indo-European
| fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo Iranian]]
| fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo Aryan]]
| fam4 = [[Eastern Indo-Aryan languages|Eastern Zone]]
| fam5 = [[Bengali-Assamese languages|Bengali-Assamese]]
| fam6 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| dialects = Bangladeshi variation<br/>Indian variation
| script = [[Bengali alphabet]]
| isoexception = dialect
| image = Varendri.png
| glotto = rajs1238
| glottoname = Rajshahi
}}

'''North Central Bengali''' or '''Varendrī''' ({{lang|bn|বরেন্দ্রী}}) is a [[Bengali dialects|dialect]] of the [[Bengali language]],<ref>{{cite book|trans-title=Bangla language and dialect, Sukumar Sen, Anand Publishers|title= বাংলা ভাষা ও উপভাষা, সুকুমার সেন, আনন্দ পাবলিশার্স|language=bn}}</ref> spoken in the [[Varendra]] region (primarily consisting of the [[Rajshahi Division]] in Bangladesh and the [[Malda division]] in India). Varendri was classified by two Indian linguists; [[Suniti Kumar Chatterji]] and [[Sukumar Sen (linguist)|Sukumar Sen]]. It is also spoken in adjoining villages in neighbouring [[Bihar]]. Varendri is [[Tone (linguistics)|tonal]], and its vocabulary and phonology have a great deal of influence from [[Maithili language|Maithili]] and other [[Bihari languages]].

==Comparison==
Varendri is a dialect belonging to [[North Bengal]]. The standardised register of Bengali was chosen to be the dialect spoken in [[Nadia district|Nadia]] (West-Central Bengal).
Examples:
*English: A man had two sons.
**Standard Bengali: একজন লোকের দুটি ছেলে ছিলো (ækjon loker duţi chhele chhilo)
**Varendri ([[Rajshahi]]): এক লোকের দুইডা বেটা ছিলো (ækzon mansher duid̹a bæta asilo)
**Varendri ([[Malda district|Malda]]): একজন মানষের দুইটা বেটা আছিলো (æk jôn manser duiţa bêţa achhilo)
*English: (First person) will eat
**Standard Bengali: খাবো (khabo)
**Varendri: খাইমোঁ (khaimõ); খামোঁ (khamõ); খাইম (khaim)
*English: Money
**Standard Bengali: টাকা ([[taka]])
**Varendri: টেকা (tæka)

==References==
<references />

{{Bengali language}}

[[Category:Eastern Indo-Aryan languages]]
[[Category:Bengali dialects]]
[[Category:Languages of West Bengal]]
[[Category:Languages of Bangladesh]]

North Central Bengali dialect - Revision history

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