Dinajpuri dialect

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The Dinajpuri dialect is a regional variety of the Bengali language spoken primarily in and around the Dinajpur area of Bangladesh and India, characterized by distinct phonological and lexical features.

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Label Occurrences
Dinajpuri dialect canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf dialect
regional dialect of Bengali
belongsTo Bengali–Assamese language group
closelyRelatedTo Rajbanshi language NERFINISHED
Rangpuri language NERFINISHED
country People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
surface form: Bangladesh

India
distinguishedBy distinct lexicon
distinct phonology
distinguishedFrom Standard Colloquial Bengali NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Dinajpuri Bangla NERFINISHED
Dinajpuri Bengali NERFINISHED
hasLexicalFeature loanwords from neighboring regional varieties
region-specific vocabulary not used in Standard Bengali
hasPhonologicalFeature distinct consonant realization compared to Standard Bengali
distinct vowel quality compared to Standard Bengali
hasStatus unstandardized spoken variety
languageFamily Eastern Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
mutualIntelligibility largely intelligible with Standard Bengali
overlapsWith North Bengal Bengali dialects NERFINISHED
Rangpuri dialect continuum NERFINISHED
partOf Bengali language continuum
region North Bengal NERFINISHED
Rangpur Division NERFINISHED
spokenIn Dinajpur district, Bangladesh NERFINISHED
Dinajpur district, West Bengal, India NERFINISHED
Rangpur region, Bangladesh NERFINISHED
adjacent areas of northern Bangladesh
adjacent areas of northern West Bengal, India
subclassOf Eastern Indo-Aryan language variety
typicalDomain rural speech in Dinajpur region
usedBy inhabitants of Dinajpur area
usedIn informal communication
local cultural practices
oral traditions
writingSystem Bengali script

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Dinajpur localDialect Dinajpuri dialect