Varendri dialect

Varendri (Bengali: বরেন্দ্রী, romanized: Borendrī), is a dialect of the Bengali language,[1] 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 to	Bangladesh, India
Region	Rajshahi, Malda
Language family	Indo-European Indo Iranian Indo Aryan Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Bengali North Bengali Varendri
Dialects	Bangladeshi variation Indian variation
Writing system	Bengali alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	rajs1238  Rajshahi

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. বাংলা ভাষা ও উপভাষা, সুকুমার সেন, আনন্দ পাবলিশার্স [Bangla language and dialect, Sukumar Sen, Anand Publishers] (in Bengali).