Bangali (ethnic dialect)
Bangali is an dialect cluster of the Bengali language spoken in parts of Bangladesh. Sukumar Sen classified this dialect from other dialects. The group includes most languages of the eastern subgroup of Bengali-Assamese languages, excluding Assamese, Rohingya, Chakma and Tanchangya since their speakers aren't considered as Bengali people. The dialect or group generally also excludes the Sylheti and Chittagonian dialects. The Bangali dialect is spoken across the Divisions of Mymensingh, Dhaka, Comilla, Barisal and Khulna in Bangladesh and the Indian state of Tripura. The Bangali speaking region covers most of the land of Bengal region.Features
- Most of sounds of Standard Bengali are .
- sounds are .
- 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 and which are nasal on vowels in Standard Bengali.
Examples:
1.
- *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.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk zôner dui put asilo.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk jôner duiđa pola asilo.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk bæđar/zôner dui put asilo.transl\|ben|italic=no|egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo.transl\|ben|italic=no|egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo.transl\|ben|italic=no|egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo.transl\|ben|italic=no|egga mainsher duga hut/hula asilo.transl\|ben|italic=no|ex beţar dugu fua/fut/sabal asil/aslo.transl\|ben|italic=no|ugga mainshôr dugga fua asil.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk jon lokir duiţo seile silo.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk zon manshir dui soal silo.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk zoner duđe soal sêlo.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk zôn mansher/manur dugga pola asil.transl\|ben|italic=no|kero mansher dugga pola silo.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk loker duđi sabal selo.transl\|ben|italic=no|æk mansher duđi seile silo.
