Goalpariya (Assamese: গোৱালপাৰীয়া) (Bengali: গোয়ালপারীয়া) is a group of regional Indo-Aryan dialects spoken in the present-day Dhubri, Goalpara, Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts of the erstwhile undivided Goalpara district of Assam, India. It is prevalent with the Indo-Aryan Kamrupi dialects to its east and North Bengali dialects to its west, amidst a number of Tibeto-Burman speech communities. The basic characteristic of the Goalpariya dialect is that it is a composite one into which words of different concerns and regions have been amalgamated. The undivided Goalpara district, also called Goalpara region, was a district constituted in Colonial Assam that has subsequently seen further division. This region was earlier a part of the Kamata kingdom and later a part of Koch Hajo, the domain of Raghudeva and Parikshit Narayana, from 1581 to about 1615, when the Mughals took control over the region and constituted a Sarkar. The British received this region as the Diwani of Bengal in the 18th century, and it became a part of Colonial Assam administration soon after the British took control of the Ahom kingdom in 1826. https://youtube/watch?v=I1jAx69vXns&index=3&list=UUK1TYXL-J0l19ziIZUGF2Tw
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