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  2. Dhakaiyas - Wikipedia

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    The merchants from North India also eventually settled in Dhaka and came to be known as khoshbas meaning happily-settled. Other names for them included sukhbas and subbasi . Originally an Urdu -speaking community, their time in Bengal led to the emergence of a Bengali-influenced dialect known as Dhakaiya Urdu as they were a minority in ...

  3. Dhakaiya Kutti - Wikipedia

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    Dhakaiya Kutti Bengali is an eastern dialect of Bengali and the vocabulary of this dialect has an influence of Urdu due to interactions with the Urdu-speaking people in Old Dhaka. [5] It has only a few breathy voiced sounds in comparison to Standard Bengali .

  4. Dhakaiya Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Dhakaiya Urdu, sometimes unofficially 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.

  5. Mahifarash - Wikipedia

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    The Mahifarash (Bengali: মাহিফরাস, romanized: mahifôrash, Dhakaiya: মাইফরাস maifôrash) are a Bengali Muslim community of fishmongers primarily from Old Dhaka. They are distinct from the Mahifarash of Tangail , who are descendants of Mappila Muslims , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the Mahifarash fishermen of Mymensingh .

  6. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    The Dhakaiya Kuttis are a small urban Bengali Muslim community residing in Old Dhaka city that noticeably differ from the rest of the people of Dhaka Division by culture. Ghotis: This is the term favoured by the natives of West Bengal to distinguish themselves from other Bengalis.

  7. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.

  8. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    The name Urdu was first introduced by the poet Ghulam Hamadani Mushafi around 1780. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] As a literary language, Urdu took shape in courtly, elite settings. [ 79 ] [ 80 ] While Urdu retained the grammar and core Indo-Aryan vocabulary of the local Indian dialect Khariboli, it adopted the Perso-Arab writing system, written in the ...

  9. Shahi jilapi - Wikipedia

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    It was introduced to the Dhakaiya people a few decades ago. Families living in old Dhaka, used to buy it and ate it together. Gradually, it also became popular at iftar and wedding or occasional banquets, and many others started to make it. The word Shahi, means something which is royal.