Central Bengali dialects

Rāṛhī Bengali
Rāṛhī Bengali
Central Bengali ; Ghoti Bengali ; Hooghly-Bhagirathi Bengali
রাঢ়ী বাংলা
Native to	India, Bangladesh
Region	India: Nadia, parts of Murshidabad, Bardhaman, Hooghly, Howrah, Kolkata, Bangladesh: Kushtia, Meherpur, Chuadanga
Ethnicity	Bengali people of Presidency Division and Greater Kushtia
Language family	Indo-European Indo Iranian Indo Aryan Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Bengali Rāṛhī Bengali; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Gaudi Prakrit Old Bengali Middle Bengali ; ;
Writing system	Bengali alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	cent1983 Central Bengali

Central Bengali or Rāṛhī/Rāḍhī Bengali (Bengali: রাঢ়ী বাংলা, romanized: Rāṛhī Bāṅlā, pronounced [ɾaɽhiː baŋla]) is a group of dialects of the Bengali language, spoken in the West-Central part of Bengal, in and around the Bhagirathi River basin of Nadia district and other districts of the Presidency division in West Bengal, as well as the undivided Kushtia district region of western Bangladesh. Associated with the upper Delta and eastern Rarh region of Bengal, it forms the basis of the standard variety of Bengali.