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I think someone needs to work on the accents spoken in West Bengal. Only accents from Bangladeshi regions currently have samples. Also, I think the sentence chosen wasn't very good because it doesn't denote the main differences in the East-West divide. Something like "Manush akasher dike takiye cha(n)d dekhchhilo"/"Mainshe asmaner dihe tahaye chad dakhtesilo"/etc would be better since it shows the "change of vowel position within words", "shortening of verbs in the West", "lack of nasal sound in the East" and also "use of Perso-Arabic words in the East" in one sentence. :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.192.44 ( talk) 01:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Is not this a dialect of Bengali language? This whole article is flowed. Ovsek ( talk) 04:24, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
I agree. Shahin911 ( talk) 04:09, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
The entire article has an overwhelming bangladeshi influence. One should remember that Bengal does not mean Bangladesh alone, it means West Bengal and Tripura along with bangladesh. Where are the Indian Bengali Dialects????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pratyaykundu ( talk • contribs) 06:46, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
The article currently states that the Western dialects of Bengali use retroflex consonants, but I believe that to not be the case. When people are talking normally, you are more likely to hear apical post-alveolar. Stormmaashrooms ( talk) 23:55, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
The author has confused shuddhobhasa with sadhubhasa in this article. This should be fixed, since as far as I know, they are not the same thing. the article is not even consistent within itself on this point. [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shahin911 ( talk • contribs) 18:49, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
References
In this edit I replaced the two sources that were cited in the map caption with {{ citation needed}}, and replaced the second source in the classification section with {{ additional citation needed}}.
The short explanation is that any geographic information in the first source is too vague to be the origin of the mapped data (e.g. "Banga dialect is mainly spoken in East-Bengal (Modern Bangladesh)"). And the citation of the second source is so incomplete that it is effectively unverifiable. Sukumar Sen wrote extensively about the Bengali language, but I can find no book of his with this title. A publisher is provided, but no year, and no url/isbn/oclc or other link that might help. Even if the book could be identified, no page number is given. With regard to the second source in the classification section, about a year ago the citation was broken and incorrectly repaired. Until then, it was the same as the incomplete citation already described. Because it is effectively unverifiable, it has not been restored.
The long explanation is arrived at by examining the article history:
So in addition to the sourcing problems described in my short explanation, the sources that ended up in the map caption were probably never the origin of the map. They were copied there by the IP editor likely just to keep the map from being removed again. Moreover, the map has since changed, and its new name suggests it is now based on a work by P. R. Sarkar, but the citations haven't been updated accordingly.
If anyone can add to the caption an accurate source for the map data, please do so. If you can add to the classification section a citation sufficiently complete to be verifiable, please do that too. -- Worldbruce ( talk) 23:52, 29 April 2022 (UTC)