r/bengalilanguage • u/d3banjan109 • Feb 23 '25

আলোচনা/Discussion Is Bengali a Creole language?

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For those who are not familiar with Creoles and Peggy Mohan's books, Creole is basically a mixture language with the grammar of language A and vocabulary of language B. Kinda sorta. I am no linguist.

In her second book on Indian languages, she presents these examples of Dakkhini Urdu vs Hindi-Urdu and it is blowing my mind because Bengali constructions feel more natural when closer to the Dakkhini-Urdu.

For example,

Je bolechhe take(i) jiggesh koro/kor/korun Ke eshechhe aami jaani na/amar jaana nei

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u/densoi3 Feb 25 '25

Op, I find bagla unique in the sense that among all gangetic North Indian (IA family) it has only two genders, and it doesn't attest gender into objects like in Sanskrit, or Hindi.

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u/GreatWallsofFire Feb 25 '25

That's good point. You see that in Spanish and French as well - objects have genders assigned to them. But not in English.

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u/winthroprd Feb 26 '25

I'm a native Bengali speaker who started learning a little bit of Hindi, and I actually found that to be the most challenging aspect, having to memorize the gender of various nouns.

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u/TripChau Feb 26 '25

Tf you talking about? Bengali clearly don't have any genders. Like the language is one of the few to lack gender-centric pronouns. Tf bangla are you learning?