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The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, romanized: Bāṅlā bôrṇômālā) is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal. It is one of the most widely adopted writing systems in the world (used by over 265 million people). [5]
Part of a poem written in Bengali (and with its English translation below each Bengali paragraph) by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1926 in Hungary The Library of Whitechapel in East London with the word "বাংলা" illuminated in its front. The Bengali-Assamese script is an abugida, a script with letters for consonants, with ...
The near-open front unrounded vowel, or near-low front unrounded vowel, [1] is a type of vowel sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is æ , a lowercase of the Æ ligature. Both the symbol and the sound are commonly referred to as "ash".
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 syllable carries the greatest stress, with the third ...
The near-open vowels with dedicated symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet are: . near-open front unrounded vowel [æ]; near-open central vowel without specified rounding [ɐ] (usually used for an unrounded vowel; the distinction can be made as ɜ̞ (or æ̈ ) vs ɞ̞ )
Bengali is generally written using the Bengali script and evolved circa 1000–1200 CE from Magadhi Prakrit, thus bearing similarities to ancient languages such as Pali. Its closest modern relatives are other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages such as Assamese , Odia and the Bihari languages . [ 143 ]
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The voiced retroflex nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ɳ , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n`.