Why is Bengalis pronounced as O?
The main phonetic peculiarity of spoken Bengali for a non-Bengali speaker is the ‘o‘ they add to almost every other word, eg. it’s not rasgulla but rosogolla for them. To a Marathi speakers whose default vowel is schwa, it sounds very unusual and rather funny.
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Why is Bengali pronunciation different?
The first vowel in Bangla is অ the natural pronunciation of which is not अ but rather like the English word awe. So, it is only natural for them to replace the sound of अ with that of অ. This is the reason why Calcutta is actually Kolkata.