Talk:Dialects of Bengali

Kolkata Bangla
Kolkata Bangla(also known as Rarhi) is a dialect variety spoken in the Presidency division of West Bengal which includes the Kolkata, Howrah, Nadia and South&North 24 Pargana districts. The accent of Rarhi spoken in Kolkata and Howrah are considered to be the most standardised variations of Bengali, whereas the accents spoken in the Pargana district are considered to be relatively localised with influences of localised grammar and pronounciations from neighbouring districts in Bangladesh like Satkhira, Khulna and Bagerhat. The Rarhi accent spoken in Nadia district in areas like Krishnanagar and Nabadwip is considered to quite distinct from the other subdialects of Rarhi variation, since it has lots of influences from the neighbouring districts of Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga, which makes the speakers of Nadia Bangla having a separate entity from people of other districts with in Presidency division, since N''Italic text'Italic text'Italic textadia, Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga were all the same division before the independence of India. The accent spoken in the pargana district are quite similiar to each other, since they are basically the same as Kolkata Bangla but with localised accents. Say that in Kolkata, the city of Joy is beautiful translated to Joyo'r Shohor bhari shundor and in North Pargana Dialect, it translates to Mukti'r shohor onid sundor and in South 24 Pargana Bangla, it translated to Joyo'r Sohor onid sundor. Kolkata and Howrah, however have more Englishised and standardised accents due to the British making Kolkata, the capital of the British Raj between the years of 1772 and 1910 and the vast population in these two cities. Howrah Bangla is basically the same as Kolkata Bangla except that Howrah Bangla has Hindi and Manbhumi influence in it's pronounciation from other parts of West Bengal and Kolkata Bangla has lots of Bangladeshi influence from the Sunderbans and Dhaka.

Manbhumi
The Manbhumi dialect is spoken in the Burdwan(Bardhamann/Bordhomann) division of West Bengal which includes the districts of Burdwan, Hooghly, Birbhum, Durgapur and Asansol. The dialect spoken in Hooghly is the most standardised accent of the Manbhumi variation due to it's cultural and historical relations with the people of Kolkata and due to how close it is to Howrah and Kolkata districts. Birbhum, however is quite distinct from any Bengali dialect including the language of Bengali due to it's distinct pronounciation and grammar, since it was quite isolated and not many people know much about the district, however, after Rabindranath Thakur settled into the district and a mandir was created in the town of Santiniketan, a town located couple of miles north west of Bolpur, the district itselt became popular, since Rabindranath Tagore made poems about many different villages, towns and placed within the district. The dialect spoken in Birbhum has a lot of influences from the local tribal languages. The dialect spoken in Burdwan is quite neutral in Bengali but instead of using Lok or Manush like other dialects, they tend to use Mohalla more to say man/men in Bengali. The dialect spoken in Durgapur is quite religious and the people there are most likely to be followers of the Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The dialect spoken in Durgapur is a subdialect of Manbhumi but with religious grammar and vocabulary like greetings there is usually Joy Ma Tara or Joy durga, especially in rural areas but due to Suddho Basha being used in formal communications in modern time, people in Durgapur subdistricts don't tend to use their dialect as much as they used to. The dialect spoken in Asansol is quite similiar to the dialect spoken in Durgapur but with a high pitch accent because it's more closer to West Bengal's border than the Durgapur area.

Midnapori
The Midnapori variation has lots of inluences of Oriya but with Bengali basics in the grammar and pronounciation. The Midnapori dialects spoken in East and West Midnapore are technically the same except that they have differing localised accents between the subdistricts such as Nandigram, Digha, Haldia, Tamluk, Kharagpur, Contai, Ghatal, etc. The Midnapori accent spoken in Puruliya is basically the same as the Bankura dialect but with a high pitch accent due to it's proximity with Jharkhand. Bankura, however is really similiar to the dialect spoken in Puruliya but with a distinct localised accent that is much softer compared to the variation spoken in the district of Puruliya. Jhargram is Midnapori Bengali but with gram(village) accents differing between the different villages. Say that in Midnapori Bangla, son translates to Putro, whereas people use the word fuitra for son in Jhargram dialect.

Khulnaiya
The Khulnaiya dialect has lots of similarities between the dialects spoken in Padma and Barisal divisions. The Khulnaiya dialects spoken in Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat are known as the Dakhin Khulaniya accents AKA Sunderbani which have lots of influences from the Sunderbani tribal languages spoken in the region and the only differences between them are the religious and cultural words. The dialects spoken in Narail and Jessore are quite similiar to each other, due to their proximity and they have lots of influences from Kolkata and Kushtia in their dialects, since Rabindranath Thakur's wife named Mirinalini Devi was born in the Phultala Upazila of Jessore district. The Khulnaiya districts of Chuadanga, Kushtia, Magura, Meherpur and Jhenaidah are basically the same as the dialects spoken in Nadia district except that they have their own localised vocabulary, due to those districts getting annexed by Bangladesh and becoming a part of the Khulna division but they still hold heritage of Rabindranath Thakur in their culture due to Rabindranath Thakur's birthplace being in the Kushtia district.

Barisali
The Barisali variation has lots of similarities with Khulna and Padma Bangla ad mentioned before. The dialect spoken has a really high pitch accent with lots of Arabic influences especially in the subaccents spoken in the towns of Bakerganj and Barisal. The dialects spoken in Pirojpur and Jhalokati have lots of influence from the Sunderbani dialects. The dialects spoken in Patuakhali and Barguna districts have their own distinct characteristics and the dialect spoken in Bhola district has lots of grammatical influence from the Chittagonian language from dialects like Noakhalia and Chatgaiya.

Padma Bangla(Faridpuri)
The Padma dialect spoken in the districts of Faridpur has lots of similarities with the Dhakaiya dialect, especially from districts like Munshiganj and Manikganj. The dialect spoken in Rajbari has lots of influence from the neighbouring district of Kushtia in it's dialect and cultural heritage and the Gopalganj, Madaripur and Shariatpur have Hindu like vocabulary in them, even though they are located in Bangladesh. The Padma dialect also has lots of influence and similarities between Barisali and Khulnaiya variations.


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Kolkata Bangla
Kolkata Bangla(also known as Rarhi) is a dialect variety spoken in the Presidency division of West Bengal which includes the Kolkata, Howrah, Nadia and South&North 24 Pargana districts. The accent of Rarhi spoken in Kolkata and Howrah are considered to be the most standardised variations of Bengali, whereas the accents spoken in the Pargana district are considered to be relatively localised with influences of localised grammar and pronounciations from neighbouring districts in Bangladesh like Satkhira, Khulna and Bagerhat. The Rarhi accent spoken in Nadia district in areas like Krishnanagar and Nabadwip is considered to quite distinct from the other subdialects of Rarhi variation, since it has lots of influences from the neighbouring districts of Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga, which makes the speakers of Nadia Bangla having a separate entity from people of other districts with in Presidency division, since Nadia, Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga were all the same division before the independence of India. The accent spoken in the pargana district are quite similiar to each other, since they are basically the same as Kolkata Bangla but with localised accents. Say that in Kolkata, the city of Joy is beautiful translated to Joyo'r Shohor bhari shundor and in North Pargana Dialect, it translates to Mukti'r shohor onid sundor and in South 24 Pargana Bangla, it translated to Joyo'r Sohor onid sundor. Kolkata and Howrah, however have more Englishised and standardised accents due to the British making Kolkata, the capital of the British Raj between the years of 1772 and 1910 and the vast population in these two cities. Howrah Bangla is basically the same as Kolkata Bangla except that Howrah Bangla has Hindi and Manbhumi influence in it's pronounciation from other parts of West Bengal and Kolkata Bangla has lots of Bangladeshi influence from the Sunderbans and Dhaka.

Manbhumi
The Manbhumi dialect is spoken in the Burdwan(Bardhamann/Bordhomann) division of West Bengal which includes the districts of Burdwan, Hooghly, Birbhum, Durgapur and Asansol. The dialect spoken in Hooghly is the most standardised accent of the Manbhumi variation due to it's cultural and historical relations with the people of Kolkata and due to how close it is to Howrah and Kolkata districts. Birbhum, however is quite distinct from any Bengali dialect including the language of Bengali due to it's distinct pronounciation and grammar, since it was quite isolated and not many people know much about the district, however, after Rabindranath Thakur settled into the district and a mandir was created in the town of Santiniketan, a town located couple of miles north west of Bolpur, the district itselt became popular, since Rabindranath Tagore made poems about many different villages, towns and placed within the district. The dialect spoken in Birbhum has a lot of influences from the local tribal languages. The dialect spoken in Burdwan is quite neutral in Bengali but instead of using Lok or Manush like other dialects, they tend to use Mohalla more to say man/men in Bengali. The dialect spoken in Durgapur is quite religious and the people there are most likely to be followers of the Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The dialect spoken in Durgapur is a subdialect of Manbhumi but with religious grammar and vocabulary like greetings there is usually Joy Ma Tara or Joy durga, especially in rural areas but due to Suddho Basha being used in formal communications in modern time, people in Durgapur subdistricts don't tend to use their dialect as much as they used to. The dialect spoken in Asansol is quite similiar to the dialect spoken in Durgapur but with a high pitch accent because it's more closer to West Bengal's border than the Durgapur area.

Midnapori
The Midnapori variation has lots of inluences of Oriya but with Bengali basics in the grammar and pronounciation. The Midnapori dialects spoken in East and West Midnapore are technically the same except that they have differing localised accents between the subdistricts such as Nandigram, Digha, Haldia, Tamluk, Kharagpur, Contai, Ghatal, etc. The Midnapori accent spoken in Puruliya is basically the same as the Bankura dialect but with a high pitch accent due to it's proximity with Jharkhand. Bankura, however is really similiar to the dialect spoken in Puruliya but with a distinct localised accent that is much softer compared to the variation spoken in the district of Puruliya. Jhargram is Midnapori Bengali but with gram(village) accents differing between the different villages. Say that in Midnapori Bangla, son translates to Putro, whereas people use the word fuitra for son in Jhargram dialect.

Khulnaiya
The Khulnaiya dialect has lots of similarities between the dialects spoken in Padma and Barisal divisions. The Khulnaiya dialects spoken in Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat are known as the Dakhin Khulaniya accents AKA Sunderbani which have lots of influences from the Sunderbani tribal languages spoken in the region and the only differences between them are the religious and cultural words. The dialects spoken in Narail and Jessore are quite similiar to each other, due to their proximity and they have lots of influences from Kolkata and Kushtia in their dialects, since Rabindranath Thakur's wife named Mirinalini Devi was born in the Phultala Upazila of Jessore district. The Khulnaiya districts of Chuadanga, Kushtia, Magura, Meherpur and Jhenaidah are basically the same as the dialects spoken in Nadia district except that they have their own localised vocabulary, due to those districts getting annexed by Bangladesh and becoming a part of the Khulna division but they still hold heritage of Rabindranath Thakur in their culture due to Rabindranath Thakur's birthplace being in the Kushtia district.

Barisali
The Barisali variation has lots of similarities with Khulna and Padma Bangla ad mentioned before. The dialect spoken has a really high pitch accent with lots of Arabic influences especially in the subaccents spoken in the towns of Bakerganj and Barisal. The dialects spoken in Pirojpur and Jhalokati have lots of influence from the Sunderbani dialects. The dialects spoken in Patuakhali and Barguna districts have their own distinct characteristics and the dialect spoken in Bhola district has lots of grammatical influence from the Chittagonian language from dialects like Noakhalia and Chatgaiya.

Dhakaiya
The Dhakaiya dialect is quite colloquial, especially in rural areas of the region. For example, in Western Bengali, ki and naki are used, however in Eastern Bengali grammar, they primarily use ni at the end of a sentence and even in Sylheti and Chittagonian languages. the old version of this dialect is called the Kutti Dhakaiya and is still spoken today in the Old Dhaka area of the Bangladeshi capital and the dialect spoken in Modern day Dhaka is the same as Kutti Dhakaiya but with more modernised accents and the Dhakaiya dialects and other Eastern Bengali dialects are considered to be more colloquial than the Western Bengali dialects. The dialects spoken in Munshiganj and Manikganj use a lot of Hindu and Islamic religious vocabulary and the dialect spoken in Narayanganj is the same as the accent spoken in Dhaka district but with more religious vocabulary. The dialects spoken in Gazipr and Narsingdi are technically the same as the dialect spoken in Dhaka district, except that their accents have a higher pitch.


 * 1) redirect Bengali dialects

Kolkata Bangla
Kolkata Bangla(also known as Rarhi) is a dialect variety spoken in the Presidency division of West Bengal which includes the Kolkata, Howrah, Nadia and South&North 24 Pargana districts. The accent of Rarhi spoken in Kolkata and Howrah are considered to be the most standardised variations of Bengali, whereas the accents spoken in the Pargana district are considered to be relatively localised with influences of localised grammar and pronounciations from neighbouring districts in Bangladesh like Satkhira, Khulna and Bagerhat. The Rarhi accent spoken in Nadia district in areas like Krishnanagar and Nabadwip is considered to quite distinct from the other subdialects of Rarhi variation, since it has lots of influences from the neighbouring districts of Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga, which makes the speakers of Nadia Bangla having a separate entity from people of other districts with in Presidency division, since Nadia, Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga were all the same division before the independence of India. The accent spoken in the pargana district are quite similiar to each other, since they are basically the same as Kolkata Bangla but with localised accents. Say that in Kolkata, the city of Joy is beautiful translated to Joyo'r Shohor bhari shundor and in North Pargana Dialect, it translates to Mukti'r shohor onid sundor and in South 24 Pargana Bangla, it translated to Joyo'r Sohor onid sundor. Kolkata and Howrah, however have more Englishised and standardised accents due to the British making Kolkata, the capital of the British Raj between the years of 1772 and 1910 and the vast population in these two cities. Howrah Bangla is basically the same as Kolkata Bangla except that Howrah Bangla has Hindi and Manbhumi influence in it's pronounciation from other parts of West Bengal and Kolkata Bangla has lots of Bangladeshi influence from the Sunderbans and Dhaka.

Manbhumi
The Manbhumi dialect is spoken in the Burdwan(Bardhamann/Bordhomann) division of West Bengal which includes the districts of Burdwan, Hooghly, Birbhum, Durgapur and Asansol. The dialect spoken in Hooghly is the most standardised accent of the Manbhumi variation due to it's cultural and historical relations with the people of Kolkata and due to how close it is to Howrah and Kolkata districts. Birbhum, however is quite distinct from any Bengali dialect including the language of Bengali due to it's distinct pronounciation and grammar, since it was quite isolated and not many people know much about the district, however, after Rabindranath Thakur settled into the district and a mandir was created in the town of Santiniketan, a town located couple of miles north west of Bolpur, the district itselt became popular, since Rabindranath Tagore made poems about many different villages, towns and placed within the district. The dialect spoken in Birbhum has a lot of influences from the local tribal languages. The dialect spoken in Burdwan is quite neutral in Bengali but instead of using Lok or Manush like other dialects, they tend to use Mohalla more to say man/men in Bengali. The dialect spoken in Durgapur is quite religious and the people there are most likely to be followers of the Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The dialect spoken in Durgapur is a subdialect of Manbhumi but with religious grammar and vocabulary like greetings there is usually Joy Ma Tara or Joy durga, especially in rural areas but due to Suddho Basha being used in formal communications in modern time, people in Durgapur subdistricts don't tend to use their dialect as much as they used to. The dialect spoken in Asansol is quite similiar to the dialect spoken in Durgapur but with a high pitch accent because it's more closer to West Bengal's border than the Durgapur area.

Midnapori
The Midnapori variation has lots of inluences of Oriya but with Bengali basics in the grammar and pronounciation. The Midnapori dialects spoken in East and West Midnapore are technically the same except that they have differing localised accents between the subdistricts such as Nandigram, Digha, Haldia, Tamluk, Kharagpur, Contai, Ghatal, etc. The Midnapori accent spoken in Puruliya is basically the same as the Bankura dialect but with a high pitch accent due to it's proximity with Jharkhand. Bankura, however is really similiar to the dialect spoken in Puruliya but with a distinct localised accent that is much softer compared to the variation spoken in the district of Puruliya. Jhargram is Midnapori Bengali but with gram(village) accents differing between the different villages. Say that in Midnapori Bangla, son translates to Putro, whereas people use the word fuitra for son in Jhargram dialect.

Khulnaiya
The Khulnaiya dialect has lots of similarities between the dialects spoken in Padma and Barisal divisions. The Khulnaiya dialects spoken in Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat are known as the Dakhin Khulaniya accents AKA Sunderbani which have lots of influences from the Sunderbani tribal languages spoken in the region and the only differences between them are the religious and cultural words. The dialects spoken in Narail and Jessore are quite similiar to each other, due to their proximity and they have lots of influences from Kolkata and Kushtia in their dialects, since Rabindranath Thakur's wife named Mirinalini Devi was born in the Phultala Upazila of Jessore district. The Khulnaiya districts of Chuadanga, Kushtia, Magura, Meherpur and Jhenaidah are basically the same as the dialects spoken in Nadia district except that they have their own localised vocabulary, due to those districts getting annexed by Bangladesh and becoming a part of the Khulna division but they still hold heritage of Rabindranath Thakur in their culture due to Rabindranath Thakur's birthplace being in the Kushtia district.

Barisali
The Barisali variation has lots of similarities with Khulna and Padma Bangla ad mentioned before. The dialect spoken has a really high pitch accent with lots of Arabic influences especially in the subaccents spoken in the towns of Bakerganj and Barisal. The dialects spoken in Pirojpur and Jhalokati have lots of influence from the Sunderbani dialects. The dialects spoken in Patuakhali and Barguna districts have their own distinct characteristics and the dialect spoken in Bhola district has lots of grammatical influence from the Chittagonian language from dialects like Noakhalia and Chatgaiya.

Mymensingha
The Mymensingha variation is really similiar to Dhakaiya. The dialect spoken in Kishoreganj has some similarities with the Habiganji dialect of Sylheti language and the dialect spoken in Tangail has some similarities with the Sirajganji dialect of Rajbangshi language but both are in the middle of Mymensingha and Dhakaiya dialects. The dialects spoken in Sherpur and Jamalpur districts are really closely related to the Gaibandha dialect of Rajbangshi due to their proximity but the rivers and lakes change the way people in each of those districts speak. The dialect spoken in Mymensingha is basically Dhakaiya dialect but with a really low pitch accent. The dialect spoken in Netrakona has some similarities with the Sunamganji dialect of Sylheti.