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Dhakaiya Urdu, sometimes referred to as Sobbasi Language or Khosbasi Language, is a Bengalinized dialect of Urdu that is native to Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is being spoken by the Sobbas or Khosbas community, Nawab Family and some other communities such as the Shia community of Old Dhaka.
An estimated 152 million Bengali Muslims live in Bangladesh as of 2021, where Islam is the state religion and commands the demographic majority. [112] The Indian state of West Bengal is home to an estimated 23-24 million Bengali Muslims as per 2021 estimation, rest 6-7 million Muslims are Urdu and Surjapuri speaking Muslims. [3]
As a result of religious nationalism since the partition of British India and continued communal tensions, native speakers of both Hindi and Urdu frequently assert that they are distinct languages. The grammar of Hindi and Urdu is shared, [180] [193] though formal Urdu makes more use of the Persian "-e-" izafat grammatical construct (as in ...
A majority of Bangladesh's Muslim population has had some form of formal or informal education in the reading, writing, and pronunciation of the Arabic language as part of their religious education. Arabic has also influenced the Bengali language greatly, [ 11 ] thus it is not uncommon to hear Arabic terminology in Bangladeshi speeches and rallies.
In Bangladesh, the International Crimes Tribunal tried and convicted several leaders of the Islamic Razakar militias, as well as Bangladesh Muslim Awami league (Forid Uddin Mausood), of war crimes committed against Hindus during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. The charges included forced conversion of Bengali Hindus to Islam. [63] [64] [65]
Nawab's Dilkusha Garden, Dhaka (1904) by Fritz Kapp. The Nawabs of Dhaka were Persian and Urdu-speaking [2] [3] [4] aristocrats tracing their ancestry to Kashmiri Khan Mughal merchants who arrived in Mughal Bengal during the reign of emperor Muhammad Shah to pursue trade, but eventually settled in the districts of Dhaka, Sylhet and Bakerganj.
Although the majority of Urdu-speakers reside in Pakistan (including 30 million native speakers, [5] and up to 94 million second-language speakers), [10] where Urdu is the national and official language, most speakers who use Urdu as their native tongue live in northern India, where it is one of 22 official languages. [112] The Urdu-speaking ...
Bangladesh is ethnically homogeneous, with Bengalis comprising 99% of the population. Bangladesh is a Muslim-majority country. Muslims constitute around 90% of the population in Bangladesh while Hindus and Buddhists are the most significant minorities of the country. Christians, Sikhs, and atheists form a very minuscule part of the population ...