Dude, I don't understand shit and I'm a Bangali. Would be preposterous to claim it's related to Burmese and good news for you, no one did! Subset of Bengali or not, it takes centuries to diverge this much. If you can scientifically prove Rohingya as a subest of Bengali, would you hand over Arakan as a subset of Bangladesh?
Lungi? Hard to control? Possibility of losing it?? My friend, I don't understand.
Lets be honest with our Myanmar guests here, the Rohingya language is similar to Chittagonian, which is a different dialect of Bengali just like Sylheti, much different from most other Bengali regional dialects. In fact Chittagonian is so different that unless someone lives there significant time, Chittagonian is not immediately understandable by most Bangladeshi's although Sylheti is much more easily understood.
Here is a brief history of Chittagong and Arakan:
Pashtun rule of northren Burma, Arakan state
History of Rakhine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kingdom of Mrauk U - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chittagong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The excavation of
Neolithic fossils and tools in
Sitakunda,
Chittagong District indicate the presence of Stone Age settlements in the region as early as the third millennium BCE.
[19] The earliest historical records of the
Port of Chittagong date back to the 4th century BC, when sailors from the area embarked on voyages to Southeast Asia. The 2nd century Graeco-Roman geographer
Ptolemy mentioned the port on his map as one of the finest harbours in Asia and the eastern frontier of the Indian subcontinent.
[20] The 7th century traveling Chinese scholar and poet
Xuanzang described it as "a sleeping beauty emerging from mists and water".
[21][22]
The region was part of the ancient Bengali Buddhist kingdoms of
Harikela and
Samatata. According to Tibetan chronicles, the area was the capital of the Buddhist king
Govindachandra and the site of a major monastery called
Pandit Vihara.
Arab and
Persian traders arrived in the 8th century, and the region emerged as a major trading centre on the
maritime silk route, renowned for its pearls, rice, and textiles.
[23] Chittagong also attracted many Sufi missionaries who settled in the region and played an instrumental role in the spread of Islam.
[21][17] In 1231, Chittagong was seized by the
Deva dynasty under the reign of Damodaradeva.
[24]
Sultan
Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah of
Sonargaon conquered Chittagong in 1340.
[25] He constructed a highway from Chittagong to
Chandpur and ordered the construction of lavish mosques and tombs.
[26]The Moroccan explorer
Ibn Battuta visited the city in 1443 and sailed from the port to
Canton in
China.
[27] The Italian merchant
Niccolò de' Conti visited the city around the same time as Battuta.
[28]In the mid-15th century, the Chinese
Treasure Fleet of
Admiral Zheng He anchored in the port during numerous imperial missions to the
Sultanate of Bengal.
[29] The
Ottoman Empire utilized the shipyards of Chittagong to build its
naval forces.
[30] After the defeat of Mahmud Shah at the hands of Sher Shah in 1538, the Arakanese
Kingdom of Mrauk U conquered Chittagong. The Portuguese established
merchant communities on the banks of the Karnaphuli in 1528. In collusion with
Magh pirates and the Arakanese, Portuguese traders dominated the area for more than a century.
[31][32] The Mughal commander
Shayestha Khan and his son
Buzurg Umed Khan expelled the Arakanese from the area in 1666 and established Mughal rule there. After the Arakanese expulsion, Islamabad, as the area came to be known, economically progressed. This can mainly be attributed to an efficient system of land-grants to selected
diwans or
faujdars to clear massive areas of hinterland and start cultivation. The Mughals, similar to the Afghans who came earlier, also built mosques having a rich contribution to the architecture in the area.[
clarification needed] What is called Chittagong today also began to have improved connections with the rest of Mughal Bengal.
[7][28][31][32][33][34][35][36][37]
In 1685, the
British East India Company sent out an expedition under Admiral Nicholson with instructions to seize Chittagong and fortify it on behalf of the English but the expedition proved abortive. Two years later, the Court of Directors, determined to make Chittagong the headquarters of their Bengal trade, sent out a fleet of ten or eleven ships to seize it under Captain Heath. However, after reaching Chittagong in early 1689, they found the city too strongly held and abandoned the attempt. The city remained under the possession of the Mughals until 1760 when it was ceded to the East India Company by
Mir Qasim, the
Nawab of Bengal.
[38][39]"
), so cut him some slack!
