South Assam, by which the Old Cachar region and the present Cachar and karimganj districts are known, is a very important linguistic area. The present work gives a description of the dialects of this region. These disalects are Cachar Bengali, Bishnupriya Manipur, Dheyan, Cachar Hindustani and Cachar Oriya,. The last two are the descendants of the immigrants brought as tea garden labourers in the late last and early this century. Cachar Bengali is the Bengali as ...
