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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 ...
Meaning origin and notes References Bongal India (Assam & West Bengal) Bangladeshi Hindus: The term is a derogatory slur used primarily in India's Assam and West Bengal, to refer to East Bengalis, mostly Muslims, but occasionally also for east Bengali Hindus or Bangladeshi Hindus, mocking them for being foreigners or outsiders. [105] [106]
Barnaparichay [note 1] is a Bengali primer written by 19th century Indian social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. [1] [2] It was first published in 1855.This is considered as "The Most Influential Primer of Bengal". [3]
The Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi (Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ বাংলা আকাদেমি, pronounced [pɔʃtʃimbɔŋɡo baŋla akad̪emi], transl. West Bengal Bengali Academy) is the official regulatory body of the Bengali language in India.
Some variants of Bengali, particularly Chittagonian and Chakma Bengali, have contrastive tone; differences in the pitch of the speaker's voice can distinguish words. In dialects such as Hajong of northern Bangladesh, there is a distinction between উ and ঊ , the first corresponding exactly to its standard counterpart but the latter ...
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.
The first Bengali translation was made in prose by Nalini Mohan Sanyal in 1939. [1] It was published by Bangiya Sahitya Parishad, with a foreword by the eminent Bengali Scholar Suniti Kumar Chatterjee. However, the work is presently out of print, with the only copy available at the National Library in Kolkata. [2]
Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.