Goalpariya language
| Goalpariya | |
|---|---|
| Goālpāriya | |
| গোৱালপাৰীয়া | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Western Assam |
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Indo-European
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| Dialects | Western Golapariya, Eastern Goalpariya |
| Eastern Nagari | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Goalpariya (Assamese: গোৱালপাৰীয়া Gûwalpariya) is a group of regional Indo-Aryan dialects spoken in the present-day Dhubri, Goalpara, Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts of the erstwhile undivided Goalpara district of Assam, India. It is prevalent with the Indo-Aryan Kamrupi dialects to its east and North Bengali dialects to its west, amidst a number of Tibeto-Burman speech communities. The basic characteristic of the Goalpariya dialect is that it is a composite one into which words of different concerns and regions have been amalgamated.
There are three identified dialects in this group: (1) Eastern, (2) Western and (3) Intermediate. Scholars from Assam associate these dialects with the Assamese language. Chatterji (1926) classifies Western Goalpariya with the North Bengali dialects, and (Toulmin 2006) classes all Goalpariya dialects, including Eastern Goalpariya (Bongaigaon), in Kamatapuri lects.
The Goalpara region is the westernmost part of Brahmaputra Valley. It is bounded in north by Bhutan, on the east by Kamrup region, on the south by Garo Hills of Meghalaya and on the west by Cooch Behar district, Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal and Rangpur District of Bangladesh.
The region has never been a separate political entity. In ancient times it was included Pragjyotisha of Ramayana, Mahabharata and Puranas. Subsequently, region formed a part of Kamarupa kingdom. The Ratnapitha division of Kamarupa kingdom included the Goalpara region.
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