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Bengali, [a] also known by its endonym Bangla ( বাংলা, Bāṅlā, [ˈbaŋla] ⓘ ), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia. With over 250 million native speakers [7] and another 41 million as second language speakers as of 2024, [1] Bengali is the fifth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language ...
The Bengali Wikipedia or Bangla Wikipedia ( Bengali: বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া) is the Bengali language edition of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.
Khandana Bhava–Bandhana, [a] Sri Ramakrishna Aratrikam, [1] or Sri Ramakrishna Arati [2] ("Breaker of this world’s chain"), [3] is a Bengali song composed by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda. [4] [5] The song, dedicated to the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna, [6] was composed in 1898. [7] [8] Khandana Bhava-Bandhana is a prayer song based on ...
From a classificatory point of view, the Bengali writing system is an abugida, i.e. its vowel graphemesare mainly realised not as independent letters, but as diacriticsmodifying the vowel inherentin the base letter they are added to. It is written from left to right and uses a single letter case, which makes it a unicameral script, as opposed to a bicameral one like the Latin script. It is ...
Prothom Protishruti ( pronounced [prɒθɒm prɒtɪʃrʊtɪ] ⓘ; transl. The First Promise ), also spelled Pratham Pratishruti, is a 1964 Bengali novel by Ashapurna Devi. Considered to be Devi's magnum opus, it tells a story of Satyabati who was given away in marriage at the age of eight to maintain the social norms, and was kept under strict surveillance of brahmanical regulations. The novel ...
Bengali grammar ( Bengali: বাংলা ব্যাকরণ Bangla bêkôrôn) is the study of the morphology and syntax of Bengali, an Indo-European language spoken in the Indian subcontinent. Given that Bengali has two forms, Bengali: চলিত ভাষা ( cholito bhasha) and Bengali: সাধু ভাষা ( shadhu bhasha ), it is important to note that the grammar discussed ...
Bengali (বাংলা Bangla) is one of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, which evolved from Magadhi Prakrit, native to the eastern Indian subcontinent. [1] The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit origin, with significant ancient borrowings from the older substrate language (s) of the region. However, in medieval times, more borrowings have occurred, from ...
The Baul ( Bengali: বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels of mixed elements of Sufism and Vaishnavism from different parts of Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam 's Barak Valley and Meghalaya. [1] [2] Bauls constitute both a syncretic religious sect of troubadours and a musical tradition. Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects ...