Draft:Dialects of Bangla
Rarhi
[edit]Rarhi is broken up into two variants, the one spoken in Presidency division and the one that is spoken in the Bordhomann-Deoghar region:
(1) Kolkata Bangla This is the variant spoken in Presidency division and this dialect is the most standard and formalised use of Bengali language and much of Bengali poetry and Bengali literature] is all written and used in this dialect of Bengali, the Bengali media in India is based on this dialect and all the Indian Bengali movies get filmed with actors speaking in this dialect and musicians singing in this dialect, it is further divided into more standard Kolkata city Bangla which differs from Pujali in the Southern part of the city to Kalyani in the northern part of the city, the dialect spoken in Howrah district which is almost the same as Kolkata City Dialect, the Bengali dialect spoken in Hooghly District, the dialects of RURAL South and North 24 Paraganas which use influences from the neighbouring Sunderbani(Khulnaiya) dialect of Bengali but is mostly based on Kolkata Bangla but more of an Ancholik(colloquial) dialect, the Bengali dialect spoken in Nadia district which is the most differing sub dialect within this broader dialect group of Kolkata Rarhi. This dialect can also be known as the Bengali spoken in Presidency Division, WB, India. 1913 Nobel laureate Rabindranath Thakur was born in Kolkata, where this dialect is predominantly spoken.
(2) Rarhi(Burdwan-Deoghar Bangla) This dialect of Bengali uses some influences from Hindi and neighbouring languages such as Santali, Maithili, Oriya, Sambalpuri, Magadhi and Bhojpuri in the accent of their dialect but is based on pure Bengali, closely related to the Rarhi spoken in Presidency division. This dialect is further divided into the sub dialects of the pure form of colloquial Rarhi spoken in Burdwan(Purba Burdwan district), the Rarhi spoken in Durgapur area, the Rarhi spoken in Asansol area, the Rarhi spoken in Birbhum district which uses influences from local languages, the Rarhi spoken in Murshidabad which uses influences from dialect groups and sub dialects spoken in neighbouring Bangladesh, and the Rarhi accent spoken in Deoghar is quite different from most other dialects of Bengali. Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in Burdwan district where they speak this dialect.