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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 ...
Gitanjali ( Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour.
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 ...
The Bengali dialects ( Bengali: বাংলা উপভাষা [baŋla upobʱaʃa]) or Bengali varieties ( বাংলা ভাষিকা [baŋla bʱaʃika]) are the varieties of the Bengali language that are part of the Eastern Indo-Aryan language group of the Indo-European language family widely spoken in the Bengal region of South Asia. The spoken dialects of Bengali are mutually ...
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 ...
Sahaj Path ( Bengali: সহজ পাঠ) is a Bengali language learning book, written by Rabindranath Tagore. [1] In two of its edition this book describes the basics of Bengali language and literature. The first edition (প্রথম ভাগ) has the preliminary ideas of Bengali alphabet, their structures, pronunciation; while the second edition (দ্বিতীয় ভাগ ...
Bengali has been a second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. In Pakistan, Bengali is a recognised secondary language in the city of Karachi mainly spoken by stranded Bengalis of Pakistan.
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 ...