Morphological Analysis of Noakhali Dialect

Abstract

Noakhali is one of the dialects of Bengali which is mainly spoken in the Noakhali district of Bangladesh. This paper describes morphological analysis of Noakhali dialect. Morphological analysis is an important part of natural language processing. This is a qualitative research concerning the morphological analysis of Noakhali dialect used by Chatkhil villagers. The purpose of the study was to describe the derivational and inflectional prefixes and suffixes in the Noakhali dialect. Three domains were selected. Family came first, friendship and then neighborhood. Two different methods were used to get the data: observation and interviewing (listening and taking notes). The first half of the paper explores the idea of morphology, morpheme, and word formation. In the second section takes some sentences translated into the IPA in Noakhali dialect to generate it is necessary features. The features will have categories: part of speech, gender, number, and person. The tool works on inflectional and derivational morphemes.