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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".
Some languages without noun class may have noun classifiers instead. This is common in East Asian languages.. American Sign Language; Bengali (Indo-European); Burmese; Modern written Chinese (Sino-Tibetan) has gendered pronouns introduced in the 1920s to accommodate the translation of Western literature (see Chinese pronouns), which do not appear in spoken Chinese.
The Portuguese were followed by the English and French respectively, whose works were mostly related to Bengali grammar and transliteration. The first version of the Aesop's Fables in Bengali was printed using Roman letters based on English phonology by the Scottish linguist John Gilchrist .
Pronominalization in Bengali is a 1983 published version of a thesis about Bengali grammar written in English by Bangladeshi linguist Humayun Azad. The writing was started in 1976, [ 1 ] during his doctoral in Edinburgh , Scotland. [ 2 ]
Modern Bengali dates back to 1800 AD. It marked the renaissance of Bengali, as well as incorporating borrowings from European languages. Significant changes in verbs and pronouns occurred during this period, which marked the contraction of most verbs and pronouns.
Finally, some languages, such as English and Afrikaans, have nearly completely lost grammatical gender (retaining only some traces, such as the English pronouns he, she, they, and it—Afrikaans hy, sy, hulle, and dit); Armenian, Bengali, Persian, Sorani, Ossetic, Odia, Khowar, and Kalasha have lost it entirely.
This category contains articles relating to Bengali morphology and syntax. Pages in category "Bengali grammar" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
English uses the same form for both; for example: Mary loves him (direct object); Mary sent him a letter (indirect object). Prepositional pronouns, used after a preposition. English uses ordinary object pronouns here: Mary looked at him. Disjunctive pronouns, used in isolation or in certain other special grammatical contexts, like moi in French.