East Bengali dialect

Bangali
Bāṅgālī
বাঙ্গালী
Native to	Bangladesh Tripura
Region	Bangladesh Khulna, Dhaka, Mymensingh, Comilla India Tripura
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Bengali Bangali
Writing system	Bengali alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	vang1242  Vanga

East Bengali or Vaṅgīya (বঙ্গীয়) is a non Standard Bengali dialect and a dialect cluster spoken in some parts of Bangladesh & Tripura and includes most of the varieties in the eastern subgroup of Bengali-Assamese languages spoken by Bangals in the state of Tripura and parts of the country. Sukumar Sen classified this dialect from other dialects. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, describing the cluster as "Vanga Dialects", further divided it into two groups, "Western and S. W. Vanga" and "Eastern and S.E. Vanga". The Eastern and S.E.Vangia group spoken in the Sylhet and Chittagong, while the Western and S. W. Vanga group is spoken across the Divisions of Mymensingh, Dhaka, Comilla, Barisal and Khulna (excluding Satkhira district) in Bangladesh and the Indian state of Tripura. The Bangali-speaking region covers most of the land of Bengal region.

Features

• Most of [e] sounds of Standard Bengali are [ɛ].
• [o] sounds are [ʊ].
• gulo, gula, gulain use as plural number instead of guli in some subdialects.
• Aspirations are lite or is not used.
• Standard Bengali /tʃ/ and /tʃʰ/ are /s/ and /tsʰ/ or /ts/.
• Most subdialects have tones.
• Standard Bengali /ʃ/ is /ɦ/ or absent especially in non-final positions in many subdialects.
• Standard Bengali /p/ and /pʰ/ are /ɸ/ in some subdialects and /ɦ/ in Nokhailla subdialect.
• Many subdialects have [m] and [n] which are nasal on vowels in Standard Bengali.

Examples:

1. (in IPA)

• • English: The thieves are being beaten.
  • Standard Bengali: /tʃorgulo maːr kʰatʃtʃʰe/
  • A Bangali subdialect: /tsʊɾgulain piɖani kʰaitase/

2.

• • English: A man had two sons.
  • Standard Bengali: æk jon loker duţi chhele chhilo.
  • Manikganji subdialect: zoner duiđi saoal asilo.}}
  • Mymensinghiya subdialect: æk zôner dui put asilo.
  • Munshiganji subdialect (Bikrampur): æk jôner duiđa pola asilo. (P)
  • Comillan subdialect: æk bæđar/zôner dui put asilo. (P)
  • Noakhailla subdialect (Sandwip): egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo.
  • Noakhailla subdiaoect (Feni): egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo. (P)
  • Noakhailla subdialect (Hatia): egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo. (P)
  • Noakhailla subdialect (Ramganj): egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo.
  • Sylheti language: ex beţár dugú fuá/fút/sabal ásil/áslo.
  • Chittagonian language: ugga mainshôr dugga fua asil.
  • Chuadanga subdialect: æk jon lokir duiţo seile silo.
  • Khulnaiya subdialect: æk loker duti sele silo.
  • Jessore subdialect: æk loker dui sele chilo. (P)
  • Borishailla subdialect (Bakerganj): æk zôn mansher/manur dugga pola asil.
  • Foridpuri subdialect: kero mansher dugga pola silo.
  • Satkhira subdialect: æk loker duđi sabal selo.
  • Kushtia subdialect: æk mansher duđi seile silo.

See also

• Bengali dialects