Varendri dialect

Varendri (Bengali: বরেন্দ্রী, romanized: Borendrī), is a dialect of the Bengali language[2], spoken in the Varendra region (primarily consisting of the Rajshahi Division in Bangladesh and the Malda division in India). Varendri was classified by two Indian linguists; Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sukumar Sen. It is also spoken in adjoining villages in neighbouring Bihar. Varendri is tonal, and its vocabulary and phonology have a great deal of influence from Maithili and other Bihari languages.

Varendri
bôrendri
বরেন্দ্রী
Native toBangladesh, India
RegionRajshahi, Malda
Indo-European
DialectsBangladeshi variation
Indian variation
Bengali alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottolograjs1238  Rajshahi[1]

Comparison

Varendri is a dialect belonging to North Bengal. The standardised register of Bengali was chosen to be the dialect spoken in Nadia (West-Central Bengal). Examples:

  • English: A man had two sons.
    • Standard Bengali: একজন লোকের দুটি ছেলে ছিলো (ækjon loker duţi chhele chhilo)
    • Varendri (Rajshahi): এক লোকের দুইডা বেটা ছিলো (æk loker duida bæta chhilo)
    • Varendri (Malda): একজন মানুষের দুটা বেটা আছলো (æk jôn manuser duţa bêţa achhlô)
  • English: (First person) will eat
    • Standard Bengali: খাবো (khabo)
    • Varendri: খেহিবো (khæhibo)
  • English: Money
    • Standard Bengali: টাকা (taka)
    • Varendri: টেকা (tæka)

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rajshahi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. বাংলা ভাষা ও উপভাষা, সুকুমার সেন, আনন্দ পাবলিশার্স [Bangla language and dialect, Sukumar Sen, Anand Publishers] (in Bengali).
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