Barpetia dialect

Barpetia
বৰপেটীয়া
Borpeita
Native to India
Region Western Kamrup region,
Ethnicity Not ethnic dialect
Indo-European
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog None

Barpetia dialect (native: borpeita) is a modern regional subdialect of Kamrupi, a dialect of the Assamese language.[2] Named after the current Barpeta district of Assam, it is the westernmost of the Kamrupi group of dialects.[3] This dialect has community variations within itself.

Characteristics

  • Whereas most of the other Kamrupi dialects have a seven-term vowel system, Barpetia has eight.[4]
  • Whereas most of the other Kamrupi dialects follow a four-term verb system, Barpetia follows a five-five term system[5]

Notes

  1. The Journal of the Assam Research Society - Volume 27 (1983), Page 27 The Kamarupi script developed into the medieval Assamese script and the latter into the modern Assamese script. The Assamese script maintains some relationship with the Bengali and the Maithili scripts.
  2. "The Barpeta dialect is a sub-dialect of Kamrupi, a dialect of Assamese language. It is called 'Barpetia' in std. Assamese language. The native speakers call it 'Barpeita'..." (Oja 1995:1)
  3. (Dutta 2003:103)
  4. (Oja 1995:407)
  5. (Oja 1995:407–408)

References

  • Oja, Deepali (1995). A critical study of Barpeta dialect (Ph.D). Gauhati University. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  • Dutta, Birendranath (2003), "Non-standard Forms of Assamese", in Miri, Mrinal, Linguistic Situation in Northeast India, New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, pp. 101–110
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