Barpetia dialect

Barpetia
Borpeita
বৰপেইটা
Native toIndia
RegionWestern Kamrup region,
EthnicityNot ethnic dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3
GlottologNone

Barpetia dialect (native: borpeita) is a modern regional subdialect of Kamrupi, a dialect of the Assamese language.[2] Named after the current Barpeta district of Assam, it is the westernmost of the Kamrupi group of dialects.[3] This dialect has community variations within itself.

  1. ^ The Journal of the Assam Research Society - Volume 27 (1983), Page 27 The Kamarupi script developed into the medieval Assamese script and the latter into the modern Assamese script. The Assamese script maintains some relationship with the Bengali and the Maithili scripts.
  2. ^ "The Barpeta dialect is a sub-dialect of Kamrupi, a dialect of Assamese language. It is called 'Barpetia' in std. Assamese language. The native speakers call it 'Barpeita'..." (Oja 1995:1)
  3. ^ (Dutta 2003:103)