Dhakaiya Kutti

Dhakaiya Kutti (Bengali: ঢাকাইয়া কুট্টি) or Old Dhakaiya(Bengali: পুরাণ ঢাকাইয়া) is a unique language of Bangladesh. It is spoken by the people of Old Dhaka. This language developed based on both Bengali & Urdu.^[1] This language is completely intelligible with Bengali but it has some unique & different vocabulary.

History

Dhakaiya Kutti is an interesting language in Bangladesh. This language is a Bengali-based Creole language with large amount of Persian, Arabic & Hindi-Urdu vocabulary. Legend is The Old Dhakaiya people came from Western & Northern India for work during Mughal era. Bengal was famous for rice cultivation. The rice need to clean up for eating or other works. This clean up is called “কুটা”(kuta) in Bengali. The Kutti name is come from ‘’Kuta’’.^[2]

Features

Thi language has a few aspirated sounds. [gʱ], [tʃʰ], [d̪ʱ], [bʱ] sounds are not available in this language.^[1]

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