LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:3 March 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Phonological Analysis of Mymensingh Dialect, Bangladesh

Iftakhar Ahmed, M.A.

Abstract

Bangla is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language which belongs to the Indo-European Language family. Bangla has several sister languages. Mymensingh dialect is a sister language of Bangla. The native speakers of Mymensingh use Bangla in their everyday communication. The phonological, morphological, and syntactical features of Mymensingh dialect have a clear discrepancy from Standard Bangla. This paper aims to present Mymensingh dialect on the aspects of phonological features. It is found that there are dialectical differences between standard Bangla and Mymensingh dialect concerning place and manner of articulation of consonants. The aspirated sound is profoundly absent in Mymensingh dialect. One vowel turning into another is a common feature in Mymensingh dialect.

Keywords: Standard Bangla, Mymensingh dialect, consonants, vowels.

Introduction

Speculation about the language and dialect has been going for decades. It is not an easy task to make a barrier between a language and a dialect as Haugen (1966) opines that “language and dialect are ambiguous terms. Ordinary people use these terms quite freely in speech; for them a dialect is almost certainly no more than a local non-prestigious (therefore powerless) variety of a real language” (cited in Wardhaugh,2010. pp 24). Language is a mix of dialects as Reed (1967) opines that “languages normally consist of dialects, or special varieties of usage within the range of a given linguistic system, according to the social or geographical disposition of its speakers.” Geographical distance is not an only criterion to define a dialect. There are many other factors must be concerned to define a dialect than geographical ones as different social or economic classes use different languages according to their own requirements.

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Iftakhar Ahmed, M.A.
Department of English
Jahangirnagar University
Savar, Dhaka-1342
Bangladesh
iftakharahmedju@gmail.com
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