sentences:  Many Purbo Bengali dialects share phonological features with Assamese, including the debuccalization of to or .The influence of Tibeto-Burman languages on the phonology is mostly on the Bengali spoken in east of the Padma River and relatively less in West and South Bengal, as is seen by the lack of nasalized vowels in eastern Bengal, but nasalization is present in Indian Bengali and an alveolar articulation for the otherwise postalveolar stops , , , and , resembling the equivalent phonemes in languages such as Thai and Lao.In the phonology of West and Southern Bengal, the distinction between and is clear and distinct like neighbouring Indian languages.