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  2. Dhakaiya Kutti - Wikipedia

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    Features. Dhakaiya Kutti is an eastern dialect of Bengali and the vocabulary of this dialect has some influence of Urdu due to the interactions with Urdu-speaking people of Old Dhaka. [5] It has only a few aspirated sounds in comparison to Standard Bengali. Some aspirated sounds such as [gʱ], [d̪ʱ], [bʱ] are not pronounced properly in this ...

  3. Kolkata - Wikipedia

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    Bengali, the official state language, is the dominant language in Kolkata. English is also used, particularly by the white-collar workforce. Hindi and Urdu are spoken by a sizeable minority. Bengali Hindus form the majority of Kolkata's population; Marwaris, Biharis and Urdu-speaking Muslims compose large minorities.

  4. Farah (name) - Wikipedia

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    Farah ( Arabic: فَرَح , faraḥ) is an Arabic female given name and sometimes male given name meaning "happiness, joy, gladness, gleefulness, joyful, joyfulness, merriment, rejoice". The name is based on the Arabic root ف ر ح (f-r-ḥ), variants from the root are: Farhat / Farhaat ( Arabic: فَرْحَات, farḥāt) - male given name ...

  5. Bengali name - Wikipedia

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    Many people in Bangladesh and West Bengal have two given names: a "good name" ( Bengali: ভালো নাম, romanized : bhalo nam ), which is used on all legal documents, and a "call name" or "nickname" ( Bengali: ডাক নাম, romanized : dak nam ), which is used by family members and close friends. The two names may or may not be ...

  6. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam.

  7. List of Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Victor Banerjee, Bengali Tollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood actor; the only Indian to win National Board of Review Award for Best Actor. Bipasha Basu, Bollywood actress. Jaya Bhattacharya, actress. Nivedita Bhattacharya, theatre actress. Nusrat Jahan, Bengali actress. Samit Bhanja, Bollywood and Bengali actor.

  8. Zaynab (name) - Wikipedia

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    Zaynab is the name of a daughter and a granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and two of his wives: Zaynab bint Jahsh and Zaynab bint Khuzayma . In 2021, the Chicago Tribune found that Zeinab was the most popular name for girls among names unusually frequent in Michigan, "17.2 times more common than nationwide." [1]

  9. Sarah (given name) - Wikipedia

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    Sarah was ranked among the top 10 names from 1978 to 2002, reaching a plateau of popularity from the early 1980s to 1988. Every year since and including 1989, it has fallen in popularity, but it remained the 30th most–popular name for newborn girls in 2010. Its most common variant spelling, Sara, was number 121.