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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Bengali on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Bengali in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
In standard Bengali, stress is predominantly initial. Bengali words are virtually all trochaic; the primary stress falls on the initial syllable of the word, while secondary stress often falls on all odd-numbered syllables thereafter, giving strings such as সহযোগিতা sahayogitā [ˈʃɔhoˌdʒoɡiˌta] ('cooperation'). The first ...
Bengali punctuation marks, apart from the downstroke দাড়ি dari (।), the Bengali equivalent of a full stop, have been adopted from western scripts and their usage is similar: Commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, etc. are the same as in English. Capital letters are absent in the Bengali script so proper names are unmarked.
Bangladeshi English is an English accent heavily influenced by the Bengali language and its dialects in Bangladesh. [1] [2] This variety is very common among Bengalis from Bangladesh. The code-mixed usage of Bengali/Bangla and English is known as Benglish or Banglish. The term Benglish was recorded in 1972, and Banglish slightly later, in 1975. [3]
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The traditional pronunciation of "ł" was [ɫ̪], a velarized form of L. That pronunciation was called the "noble's ł" (Ł szlacheckie) or "borderland ł" (Ł kresowe.) Today it is referred to as the Ł przedniojęzykowe and has mostly died out within Poland, replaced by the now standard pronunciation. The old form is still spoken in the ...
Standard Bengali: spoken all over the country – originally based on the Central Bengali dialect of Nadia region (partly in Khulna Division), very close to dialect in the rest of Khulna Division. Bangali : General Eastern Bengali dialect spoken (beside Standard Bengali) in most of the parts of Bangladesh ( Dhaka , Khulna , Mymensingh , Greater ...
Spoken Bengali exhibits far more variation than written Bengali. Formal spoken Bengali, including what is heard in news reports, speeches, announcements, and lectures, is modelled on Choltibhasha. This form of spoken Bengali stands alongside other spoken dialects, or Ancholik Bangla (আঞ্চলিক বাংলা) (i.e. 'regional Bengali').