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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]
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 .
The south-western dialects (Rarhi or Nadia dialect) form the basis of modern standard colloquial Bengali. In the dialects prevalent in much of eastern and south-eastern Bangladesh (Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka and Sylhet Divisions of Bangladesh), many of the stops and affricates heard in West Bengal and western Bangladesh are pronounced as ...
Grierson (1903) grouped the dialects of Chittagong under Southeastern Bengali, alongside the dialects of Noakhali and Akyab. Chatterji (1926) places Chittagonian in the eastern Vangiya group of Magadhi Prakrit and notes that all Bengali dialects were independent of each other and did not emanate from the literary Bengali called "sadhu bhasha". [11]
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Pages in category "Languages of Bangladesh" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. ... Bawm language; Bengali alphabet; Bengali dialects ...
Pages in category "Bengali dialects" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Central Bengali dialect; Chittagonian language; Christian ...
Eastern Bengali, [1] Baṅgālī (Bengali: বঙ্গালী, romanized: bôṅgalī) [2] or Vaṅga (Bengali: বঙ্গ, romanized: bôṅgô) [3] is a nonstandard dialect cluster of Bengali spoken in most of Bangladesh and Tripura, thus covering majority of the land of Bengal and surrounding areas.