Bengali language: Difference between revisions

===Modern===

The modern literary form of Bengali was developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries based on the dialect spoken in the [[Nadia district|Nadia region]], a west-central Bengali dialect. Bengali presents a strong case of [[diglossia]], with the literary and standard form differing greatly from the colloquial speech of the regions that identify with the language.<ref name="cornell">{{cite web |url=http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian/courses/bengali |title=Bengali Language at Cornell |website=Department of Asian Studies |publisher=Cornell University |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115131805/http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian/courses/bengali |archive-date=15 November 2012}}</ref> The modern [[Bengali vocabulary]] contains the vocabulary base from Magadhi Prakrit and Pali, also [[tatsama]]s and reborrowings from Sanskrit and other major borrowings from [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Austroasiatic languages]] and other languages in contact with.