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Bangali dialect: Bangali dialect is the most widely spoken dialect of Bengali language. It is spoken across the Khulna , Barisal , Dhaka , Mymensingh , Sylhet and Comilla Divisions of Bangladesh and the State of Tripura in India .
Within his Pāścātya grouping, he created the division of "Northern" or "Udīcya", corresponding to the combined dialect groups of "Varendra" and "Kāmarūpa" proposed by Suniti Kumar Chatterji, with the remaining area corresponding to Rāḍha dialects. This Northern Bengali dialect is said to be spoken from Goalpara to Purnia, encompassing ...
Before the commencement of the Bengali Language Implementation Act, 1987, English had a considerable presence in official affairs, but since 1987 the usage of English has waned significantly in government. Due to the British colonization of the country, English is still a widely spoken and commonly understood language in Bangladesh. [7]
Despite the large number of speakers, the language is considered to be endangered. [12] The governments of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have introduced the Kurukh language in schools with majority Kurukhar students. Jharkhand and West Bengal both list Kurukh as an official language of their respective states. [13] Bangladesh also has some speakers.
Some have stated that in the dialect Continuum of Bengali, Noakhailla dialect is mutually unintelligible with the Dinajpur dialect (Northern dialect) due to the geographical distance between the two dialects. Before and after the Partition of India, Noakhailla speakers had migrated to West Bengal, Assam and Tripura also.
^ Use র for Bengali and Manipuri, and ৰ for Assamese. ^ Assamese and Manipuri only. ^ May be pronounced 'w' in some languages. ^ Also the Tamil ligature SRI (ஶ்ரீ = ஶ்ரீ or, prior to Unicode 4.1, ஸ்ரீ = ஸ்ரீ) should be transliterated as śrī with ś, although srī may be also acceptable.
The word for younger brother-in-law, shala (শালা) in Standard Bengali and hala (হালা) in Dhakaiya Kutti Bengali and other eastern dialects, is seen as offensive in almost all Bengali dialects except in the Dhakaiya Kutti dialect this is a common and inoffensive word which can be applied to teachers, parents and animals. [6]
Sylheti Nagri or Sylheti Nāgarī (Sylheti: ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ, síloṭi nagri, pronounced [sílɔʈi nagɾi]), known in classical manuscripts as Sylhet Nagri (ꠍꠤꠟꠦꠐ ꠘꠣꠉꠞꠤ) as well as by many other names, is an Indic script.