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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 ...
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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 .
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".
The first usage of the word "Benglish" was found in 1972 and "Banglish" in 1975. [ 3 ] In academic circles, "Benglish verb" refers to a compound verb consisting of an English word and a Bengali verb, such as: "accident" (meaning "to be involved in an accident"), "in" (meaning "to enter") or "to confuse" (meaning "to cause confusion").
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').
The Bengali Wikipedia now has 161,529 articles on various topics with 1,121 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. [29] [30] It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. [31]
Since then, the examination has been renamed as the Madhyamik Pariksha (literally secondary examination in Bengali; the word madhyamik translates from the Bengali language as middle level). During the pandemic period of COVID-19, the exam (2021) was cancelled.