The North Bengali dialect is situated to its west, amidst a number of Tibeto-Burman speech communities.

The basic characteristic of the Goalpariya is that it is a composite one into which words of different concerns and regions have been amalgamated.

[3] The Eastern Magadhi Prakrit gave rise to four historical dialects—Radhi, Varendri, Kamarupi and Vanga.

The Kamarupi dialect gave rise to Indo-Aryan speeches of Brahmaputra valley, including Goalpariya, and the KRNB lects spoken outside Assam.

[12] The two erstwhile western districts of Assam, Kamrup and Goalpara, possess several local dialects.

The differences between the eastern and western Assamese dialects are wide and range over the whole field of phonology, morphology and, not infrequently, vocabulary.

For example, Verb: Kha (to eat) The people who speak this dialect, call themselves deshi, a dominant section, leaving out the Bodos, Rabhas, Mechs, Chawtals and other communities of the region.

There are many other Arabic, Persian and Urdu words in use in the Goalpariya dialect such as roshan, haram, nasta, chacha, chachi, bhabi, nana and nani.

It was primarily Pratima Barua Pandey, who raised the profile of this hitherto unknown genre of music nationally in India.

There are some variations in the dialect as one move from one place to another which is not surprising as when there is a physical separation in terms of distance.

According to Birendra Nath Dutta, the former president of the Asom Sahitya Sabha, the old district can roughly be divided into two zones, the eastern and the western, on the basis of variation in their dialects.

The western zone on the other hand, being contiguous to North Bengal, could not remain unaffected from the Bengali influence.

For example, uyak aisa khaibe (he has to come), mok ei kamta or kajta kara khai (I have to do this work).