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Chittagonian
চাটগাঁইয়া
চিটাইঙ্গা
Pronunciation
Native to	Bangladesh
Region	Chittagong region
Ethnicity	Bengali
Native speakers	13 million (2006) to 16 million (2007)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Bengali–Assamese Chittagonian
Writing system	Bengali-Assamese Perso-Arabic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ctg
Linguist List	ctg
Glottolog	chit1275
Linguasphere	73-DEE-aa
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Chittagonian Language (Template:Lang-ctg বুলি, Caṭgãia Buli) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Chittagong Division in Bangladesh. It is generally considered to be a nonstandard dialect of Bengali because its speakers identify with Bengali culture and Standard Bengali as literary language, but the two are not mutually intelligible. It is estimated (2009) that Chittagonian has 13–16 million speakers, principally in Bangladesh.

Classification

Chittagonian is a member of the Bengali-Assamese sub-branch of the Eastern group of Indo-Aryan languages, a branch of the wider Indo-European language family. Its sister languages include Sylheti, Rohingya, Chakma, Assamese, and Bengali. It is derived through an Eastern Middle Indo-Aryan from Old Indo-Aryan, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Phonology

Consonants

• Approximants are only heard as allophones of vowels /i u/.
• /ts/ can have a post-alveolar allophone of .
• /ʃ/ can have an allophone of .
• /f/ can have a bilabial allophone of .

Vowels

• Nasalization occurs for seven vowels /ĩ ẽ æ̃ ã ɔ̃ õ ũ/.
• is heard as an allophone of /æ/.

Writing system

The Bengali-Chittagongian script is used to write this language.

Gboard for Android has added Chittagongian Keyboard.

Grammar

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Chittagongian grammar has significant variations in inflectional morphology (prefixes, suffixes, particles, etc.).

Singular | Plural

Fothú án (the picture) | Fothú Ğín (the pictures)

Fata wá (the leaf) | Fata Ğín (the leaves)

Tar gán(the wire) | Tar Ğin(the wires)

Faár gwá(the mountain) | Faár gún(the mountains)

Debal lán(the wall) | Debal lún(the walls)

Kitap pwá(the book) | Kitap pún(the books)

Manúish cwá(the man) | Manúish shún(the men)

Uggwá fata (a leaf) | Hodún fata(some leaves)

Ekkán fothú(apicture) | Hodigin Fothú (some pictures)

Fata uggwá(a leaf) | Fata hodún(some leaves)

Fothú ekkán(a picture) | Fothú hodien(some pictures)

Tar gán (the wire) | Tar Ğin (the wires)

Duar gán (the door) | Duar gin (the doors)

Vocabulary

Chittagonian | English

doiɟɟa | Sea

foir | Pond

fonna | Study

beinna | Morning

aɟuinna | Evening

ɛ̃robari | In-Law’s house

amoţţa | Again

Usage

Cplusbd Television currently broadcasting news in Chittagongian Language.

See also

• Chittagong
• Rohingya language
• Chittagong Division
• Chittagong Hill Tracts

References

1. Chittagonian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Nationalencyklopedin "Världens 100 största språk 2007" The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007
3. "Chittagonian written with Arabic script, Naskh variant". ScriptSource. Retrieved 23 April 2021.
4. "Chittagonian". Ethnologue. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
5. Masica, Colin (1991). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 25.
6. ^ "Chittagonian A language of Bangladesh". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
7. Masica, Colin (1991). The Indo-Aryan Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 16. "The dialect of Chittagong, in southeast Bangladesh, is different enough to be considered a separate language."
8. "Summary by language size". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
9. Hai, Muhammad A. (1965). A study of Chittagong dialect. In Anwar S. Dil (ed.), Studies in Pakistani Linguistics. pp. 17–38.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
10. Moniruzzaman, M. (2007). Dialect of Chittagong. In Morshed, A. K. M.; Language and Literature: Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
11. "Gboard for Android Adds Support for Over 20 New Languages". NDTV Gadgets 360. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
12. Haque, Muhammad (2016). "Chittagonian Variety: Dialect, Language, or Semi-Language". IIUC Studies. 12: 41.

External links

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Cinema	Cinema of Bangladesh Cinema of West Bengal
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v t e Languages of Bangladesh
Official language	Bengali
Indo-European	Assamese Goalpariya Kamrupi Bengali Chittagonian Dhakaiya Kutti Dobhashi Eastern Bengali Noakhailla Rangpuri Rarhi Sylheti Varendri Bihari Bishnupriya Chakma English Bangladeshi English Hajong Hindustani Dhakaiya Urdu Hindi Urdu Khotta Odia Persian Rohingya Sadri (Nagpuri)
Sino-Tibetan	Shö A'Tong Bawm Sak Kukish Falam Garo Hakha Chin (Laiholh) Khumi Koch Kokborok Megam Meitei (Manipuri) Mizo Mru Pangkhu Rakhine (Marma) Rengmitca Tanchangya
Austroasiatic	Khasi Koda Kol Mundari Pnar Santali War-Jaintia
Dravidian	Kurukh Sauria Paharia
Afro-Asiatic	Arabic
Sign	Indo-Pakistani Sign Language

• Languages of Bangladesh
• Eastern Indo-Aryan languages
• Subject–object–verb languages
• Chittagong
• Bengali dialects