Goalpariya dialects
| Goalpariya | |
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| Goālpāriya | |
| গোৱালপাৰীয়া | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Western Assam |
| Dialects | Western Golapariya, Eastern Goalpariya |
| Bengali–Assamese script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | None |
Distribution of Goalparia dialects in pink.
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Goalpariya is a group of Indo-Aryan dialects spoken in the Goalpara region of Assam, India. Along with Kamrupi, they form the western group of Assamese dialects. The North Bengali dialect is situated to its west, amidst a number of Tibeto-Burman speech communities. The basic characteristic of the Goalpariya is that it is a composite one into which words of different concerns and regions have been amalgamated. Deshi people speak this language and there are around 20 lakhs people.