It was later standardized into the modern Bengali script by Ishwar Chandra under the reign of the East India Company. The Bengali script was originally not associated with any particular language, but it was often used in the eastern regions of Medieval India and then in Pala Empire and later continued to be specifically used in the Bengal region. It also uses the Assamese script character sounding wô',' represented as ৱ, which is absent in the Bengali script. The version of the script used for Manipuri is also a different variation it uses the rô, represented as র in Bengali script without the different representation as in Assamese script. Assamese script has an additional character, wô, represented as ৱ, which is absent in the Bengali script.rô is represented as র in Bengali, and as ৰ in Assamese.In addition to differences in how the letters are pronounced in the different languages, there are some typographical differences between the version of the script used for Assamese language and that used for Bengali language.

The Bengali script evolved from the Siddhaṃ script, which belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts. 5.1 Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.2.7 Characteristics of the Bengali text.The Bengali script is however less blocky and presents a more sinuous shape. It is recognizable, as are other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together which is known as মাত্রা matra. It is written from left to right and lacks distinct letter cases.

its vowel graphemes are mainly realized not as independent letters, but as diacritics attached to its consonant letters. Historically, the script has also been used to write Sanskrit in the region of Bengal.įrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali script is an abugida, i.e. The script is shared by Assamese with minor variations, and is the basis for the other writing systems like Meithei and Bishnupriya Manipuri. The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet ( Bengali: বাংলা লিপি Bangla lipi) is the writing system for the Bengali language and is the 6th most widely used writing system in the world. Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Without proper rendering support, you may see errors in display. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols.

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