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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 ...
Bangladesh. India. The Bengali language is native to the region of Bengal, which comprises the present-day nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Geographical distribution of the Bengali language in the world. Main language. Regional language. Overseas population of more than a million.
Help:IPA/Bengali. 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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing on the first.
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".
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 ...
In modern Bengali, the most common sibilant varies between / ʃ ~ ɕ / – originally represented by শ, but today, স and ষ in words are often pronounced as / ɕ ~ ʃ /. The other sibilant in Bengali is / s /, originally represented by স, but today, শ and ষ, in words, can sometimes be pronounced as / s /.
Pre-primary level (class k-2) [18] Primary level (class 3–8) [18] Secondary level (class 9–12) [19] Tertiary level [20] At all levels of schooling, students can choose to receive their education either in English or Bengali. [21] Bangladesh has allocated 60 percent of primary school teaching positions specifically for women. [22]
Word classes can be "open" if new words can continuously be added to the class, or relatively "closed" if there is a fixed number of words in a class. In English, the class of pronouns is closed, whereas the class of adjectives is open, since an infinite number of adjectives can be constructed from verbs (e.g. "saddened") or nouns (e.g. with ...