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Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words . Pages in category "Bengali words and phrases"
Bengali personal pronouns are somewhat similar to English pronouns, having different words for first, second, and third person, and also for singular and plural (unlike for verbs, below). Bengali pronouns do not differentiate for gender; that is, the same pronoun may be used for "he" or "she".
Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [10] [11] [12] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It is the second-most widely spoken language in India .
A Grammar of the Bengal Language is a 1778 modern Bengali grammar book written in English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed. [1] This is the first grammar book of the Bengali language. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The book, published in 1778, was probably printed from the Endorse Press in Hooghly , Bengal Presidency .
Under the Sultanate of Bengal, Bengali was established as an official language, contrary to previous states which had exclusively favoured Sanskrit, Pali and Persian. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The 14th-century Bengali Islamic scholar Nur Qutb Alam composed poetry in both Persian and Bengali using only the Persian alphabet .
Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...
In a simple declarative sentence, most words and/or phrases in Bengali carry a rising tone, [17] with the exception of the last word in the sentence, which only carries a low tone. This intonational pattern creates a musical tone to the typical Bengali sentence, with low and high tones alternating until the final drop in pitch to mark the end ...
The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, romanized: Bāṅlā bôrṇômālā) is the standard writing system used to write the Bengali language, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal. [6]