- Source: Baleswari Odia
Baleswari Odia (Odia: ବାଲେଶ୍ୱରୀ ଓଡ଼ିଆ), also Northern Odia or North Balasore Odia, is a dialect of Odia spoken in the northern regions of Indian state of Odisha. It is spoken in the districts of Balasore, Bhadrak, Mayurbhanj (commonly called Mayurbhanjia) and Kendujhar (commonly called Kendujharia).
It has linguistic variations to standard Odia. While the dialects spoken in these districts vary with regional influences and influences from different local community and tribal language groups, the Baleswari Odia from the northern coastal Balasore region has a distinct accent with some similarity with the nearby Medinipuri dialect of Odia and Bengali. The dialect in Bhadrak district have more similarity with the standard Odia.
Features
Baleswari substitutes "କିସ" (kisa) for a frequently used word "କଣ" (kaṇa) meaning "what" and "କେନେ" (kene) for "କାହିଁକି" (kāhĩki) meaning why. Most of the syllables which are pronounced as "o" in Standard Odia are pronounced as "u" in Baleswaria such as "ଓଡ଼ିଶା" (Odia pronunciation: [oɽiɕaː]) is pronounced as "ଉଡ଼ିସା" [uɽisaː].
The following is a list of major words in Baleswari:
Grammatical differences
Vowel Harmony- o to u phoneme shift- Nouns, this phonetic feature is also seen in Sambalpuri
Vowel Harmony- o to u phoneme shift- Verbs
Baleswari Odia words, verbs and expressions
References
Further reading
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "North Balasore Oriya". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.