LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

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Standard Colloquial Bengali and Chatkhil Dialect: -
A Comparative Phonological Study

Md. Mostafa Rashel, M.A., M.Phil. Researcher

Abstract

Bengali is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European language family. Bengali has several dialects and sister languages. Chatkhil dialect in Noakhali region is one of them. Chatkhil dialect (CD) is a different dialect in Noakhali district for its individual phonological, morphological and syntactical features. In this paper I have tried to comparison between Standard Colloquial Bengali Language (SCB) and Chatkhil Dialect on the aspects of phonological features. There are some significant rules to determine consonants and vowel phonemes and allophones in this dialect. These entries components are discussed in this paper from the aspects of field linguistics.

Key Words: Dialect, phonology, diphthongs, standard Bengali, diglossia

1. Introduction

Bengali, also called Bangla, is the official language of Bangladesh and the Indian States of West Bengal and Tripura. There are over 200 million native speakers of this language across the world and it has the pride of place as the 5th most spoken language in the world (after Mandarin, Spanish, English and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu)). Bengali is the second most commonly spoken language in India (after Hindi).

Bengali is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European language family (Masica; 1991). Its immediate predecessor was ‘Magadhi Apabhransha’. From this emerged the three languages – Bengali, Oriya and Assamese. Bangla exhibits a strong case of diglossia between the formal, written language and the vernacular spoken language. This is a situation (diglossia) in a particular society when a language has two forms; the first of a higher prestige and the second of a lower prestige. While the latter is a colloquial tongue, the former is used in more formal contexts such as Government documents. The two standard written forms of Bangla; Shadhubhasha and Choltibhasha stand in sharp contrast with the spoken forms of Bangla, often referred to as Ancholik Bangla (Regional Bangla).

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Md. Mostafa Rashel
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Department of English
Daffodil International University
4/2, Sobhanbag, Prince Plaza 3rd Floor, Dhanmondi
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