Western Bengali dialects
Western Bengali or Mānbhūmī Bengali (Bengali: মানভূমী বাংলা, romanized: Mānbhūmī Bāṅlā, pronounced [manbʱuːmiː baŋla]) is a set of western vernacular Bengali dialects spoken in Purulia, West Bardhaman, Bankura (excluding Bishnupur), Greater Medinipur, Birbhum, Singhbhum, Santal Parganas, Chotanagpur, Kakdwip of South 24 Parganas and other adjacent areas of West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha, previously Manbhum and Dhalbhum regions in Bengal Presidency. It is one of the Bengali dialects, having some influences of neighbouring dialects of Hindi and Odia in it.