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Central Bengali [1] or Raṛhi Bengali (রাঢ়ী বাংলা) is a dialect of the Bengali language spoken in the West-Central part of Bengal, in and around the Bhagirathi River basin of Nadia district [2] and other districts of the Presidency division in West Bengal, as well as the undivided Kushtia district region of western Bangladesh.
The Bangla Academy (Bengali: বাংলা একাডেমি, pronounced [baŋla ækaɖemi]) is the official regulatory body of the Bengali language in Bangladesh.It is an autonomous institution funded by the Government of Bangladesh that fosters the Bengali language, literature and culture, works to develop and implement national language policy and conducts original research in Bengali.
Bengal Academy of Literature, the first academic association to regulate and promote Bengali language and literature was set up in Kolkata under the chairmanship of Benoy Krishna Dev in 1893. In April 1894, the academy was reorganized and rechristened as Bangiya Sahitya Parishad , and Romesh Chunder Dutt became the first president of it.
Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sukumar Sen classified Bengali dialects in five classes by their phonology and pronunciation.They are: [1] [2] 1. Bangali dialect: Bangali dialect is the most widely spoken dialect of Bengali language.
Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [10] [11] [12] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It is the second-most widely spoken language in India .
The second edition was released in 1997, [1] followed by an expanded, refined, and revised third edition in 2011, published by the Bangla Academy. [ 3 ] The second edition incorporated portraits of approximately 700 prominent individuals and provided insights into the lives of nearly 1,000 notable Bengali intellectuals and luminaries.
This is a list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies.Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with, linguistic purism and prestige, and typically publish prescriptive dictionaries, [1] which purport to officiate and prescribe the meaning of words and pronunciations.
Standard Bengali: spoken all over the country – originally based on the Central Bengali dialect of Nadia region (partly in Khulna Division), very close to dialect in the rest of Khulna Division. Bangali : General Eastern Bengali dialect spoken (beside Standard Bengali) in most of the parts of Bangladesh ( Dhaka , Khulna , Mymensingh , Greater ...