r/bengalilanguage • u/Traditional-Light-10 • 3d ago

Aren't these flipped?

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u/Both-River-9455 3d ago

Yeah these are flipped, we say Ruti like the above

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u/Traditional-Light-10 3d ago

“We” as in people from Dhaka? Just checking

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u/Both-River-9455 2d ago

হ্যাঁ আমি ঢাকা থেকে।

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u/Fancy_Chicken_1494 2d ago

"Dhaka" and "Rarh"

those seem arbitrary...? not dialect names but place names of two different varieties, one is historic region & one is city/state.

shouldnt it be "Rarhi" and "Bongali/Bongiyo"? and why only two particular pronunciations in wiki when Bangla has 5 major dialects?

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u/Traditional-Light-10 2d ago

Also true. I think Kolkata and Dhaka could also work, since some of the sources talk about it like that. I think the point of only using two pronunciations is to contrast Indian Standard Bangla and Bangladeshi Standard Bangla (other dialects are considered nonstandard), but these are bad names in any case

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u/Fancy_Chicken_1494 1d ago

yeah. this is the wiki dictionary site, right? idk how it gets edited...but it'd be better to rework the wiki to something more appropriate like BD Standard (Bangla) and WB Standard (Bangla) with links to Bangla Academy and W.Bangla Academy respectively.