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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]
The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, Gaudi. [4] Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider Old Bengali to be intelligible to a certain extent, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old ...
Old Bengali was the earliest recorded form of the Bengali language, spoken in the Bengal region of eastern Indian subcontinent during the Middle Ages. It developed from a Apabhraṃśa of Magadhi Prakrit around 650 AD, and the first Bengali literary works date from the 8th century.
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Language Native name Script Alphabet Number of speakers (in millions) Native region Assamese: অসমীয়া Oxomiya: Bengali–Assamese script: Assamese alphabet: 15.3 [3] India Bengali: বাংলা Bangla: Bengali–Assamese script: Bengali alphabet: 261.8 [4] Bangladesh (national and official)
The name of the dialects generally originates from the district where the language is spoken. While the standard form of the language does not show much variation across the Bengali-speaking areas of South Asia, regional variation in spoken Bengali constitutes a dialect continuum. Mostly speech varies across distances of just a few miles and ...
National Curriculum and Textbook Board traces its origins to the East Pakistan School Textbook Board which was established in 1954. In 1971, the Bangladesh School Textbook Board was established.
'Chaste language') or Sanskritised Bengali was a historical literary register of the Bengali language most prominently used in the 19th to 20th centuries during the Bengali Renaissance. Sadhu bhasha was used only in writing, unlike Cholito bhasha , the colloquial form of the language, which was used in both writing and speaking.