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Chittagonian
চাটগাঁইয়া
চিটাইঙ্গা
Pronunciation
Native toBangladesh
RegionChittagong region
EthnicityBengali
Native speakers13 million (2006)
to 16 million (2007)
Language familyIndo-European
Writing system
Language codes
ISO 639-3ctg
Linguist Listctg
Glottologchit1275
Linguasphere73-DEE-aa
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  Chittagonian Language speaking area

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. Due to Bengali Linguistic imperalism. 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

Labial Dental/
Alveolar 		Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop voiceless p t̪ ʈ k
aspirated pʰ t̪ʰ ʈʰ kʰ
voiced b d̪ ɖ ɡ
breathy bʱ d̪ʱ ɖʱ ɡʱ
Affricate voiceless ts tɕ
aspirated tɕʰ
voiced dʑ
breathy dʑʱ
Fricative voiceless f~ɸ s ʃ x h
voiced z ɣ
Nasal m n ŋ
Trill/Tap ɾ~r ɽ
Approximant lateral l
central (w) (j)
  • 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

Front Central Back
High i u
High-mid e o
Low-mid (ɛ) ɔ
Low æ a
  • Nasalization occurs for seven vowels /ĩ ẽ æ̃ ã ɔ̃ õ ũ/.
  • is heard as an allophone of /æ/.

Writing system

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

Gboard for Android has added Chittagongian Keyboard.

Usage

Cplusbd Television currently broadcasting news in Chittagongian Language.

See also

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. "Making Bengali mandatory in hill schools is 'linguistic imperialism': GJM students' wing". The Indian Express. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Chittagonian A language of Bangladesh". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  8. 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."
  9. "Summary by language size". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
  10. 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)
  11. Moniruzzaman, M. (2007). Dialect of Chittagong. In Morshed, A. K. M.; Language and Literature: Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  12. "Gboard for Android Adds Support for Over 20 New Languages". NDTV Gadgets 360. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

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