North Central Bengali dialects

Varendrī Bengali
Varendrī Bengali
North Central Bengali ; Gaudi Bengali ; Uttaravangiya Bengali
বরেন্দ্রী বাংলা
Native to	Bangladesh, India
Region	Bangladesh: Rajshahi Division, parts of Gaibandha District and Dinajpur District (Bangladesh) ; India: Malda Division (except for Islampur Subdivision), Parts of Bihar and Jharkhand
Language family	Indo-European Indo Iranian Indo Aryan Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Bengali Varendrī Bengali; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Gaudi Prakrit Old Bengali Middle Bengali ; ;
Writing system	Bengali alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	nort2658 Northern Bengali; rajs1238 Rajshahi

North Central Bengali or Varendrī Bengali (Bengali: বরেন্দ্রী বাংলা, romanized: Bôrendri Bāṅlā, pronounced [bɔɾendriː baŋla]) is a cluster of Bengali dialects and their varieties, it is also known as Uttaravaṅgīẏa or Udīcya, it is spoken in the Varendra region (primarily consisting of the Rajshahi Division, parts of the Gaibandha and Dinajpur districts in Bangladesh and the Malda division in India excluding Islampur). Varendri dialect was classified by many renowned Indian linguists like Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Sukumar Sen and others. It is also spoken in adjoining villages in neighbouring Bihar and Jharkhand. Varendri dialect has some influences of neighbouring dialects of Maithili and other Bihari languages.