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Opar Bangla (Bengali: ওপার বাংলা); That side Bengal, used by Bengalis from both Bangladesh and West Bengal to refer to each other. Bharatiya Bangla (Bengali: ভারতীয় বাংলা ); Indian Bengal , used by Bangladeshi media for Indian state of West Bengal.
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 ...
Bangladeshi and West Bengali cuisines have many similarities, but also many unique traditions at the same time. These kitchens have been influenced by the history of the respective regions. The kitchens can be further divided into the urban and rural kitchens.
The Assamese language uses the same script as the Bengali language. The Barak Valley has a Bengali-speaking majority population. During the Partition of India, Assam was also partitioned along with Bengal. The Sylhet Division joined East Bengal in Pakistan, with the exception of Karimganj which joined Indian Assam.
Bengali is known for its wide variety of diphthongs, combinations of vowels occurring within the same syllable. [85] Two of these, /oi̯/ and /ou̯/, are the only ones with representation in script, as ঐ and ঔ respectively. /e̯ i̯ o̯ u̯/ may all form the glide part of a diphthong. The total number of diphthongs is not established, with ...
Biggest festival of Bengalis, Pohela Boishakh. 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.
Starting in the 1950s, Bengali nationalists used the term in political rallies in East Pakistan. The term Bangla is a major name for both the Bengal region and the Bengali language. The origins of the term Bangla are unclear, with theories pointing to a Bronze Age proto-Dravidian tribe, [29] and the Iron Age Vanga Kingdom. [30]
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia; Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region; Bengali language, the language they speak Bengali alphabet, the writing system; Bengali–Assamese script. Bengali (Unicode block), a block of Bengali characters in Unicode