Devanagari, the Hindi script that is commonly used, is the Nepalese script. The Bengali alphabet is used to write Bengali, Assamese, and sometimes Sanskrit, depending on the circumstances. The earliest known inscription in the Bengali alphabet is from the 8th century CE. The Bengali alphabet is thought to have developed from the Brahmi alphabet and it is believed to have been influenced by the Sanskrit, Pali and Ardhamagadhi languages. The Bengali alphabet is written from left to right and there is no distinction between upper and lower case letters. In addition, there are 26 diacritics, which are used to change the sound of the letters.
The Bengali alphabet is an abugida, which means that each letter has an inherent vowel sound. There are also four independent vowels and two dependent vowels. There are 52 letters in the Bengali alphabet: 19 vowels and 33 consonants. The Bengali script is however less blocky and presents a more sinuous shape.In the Bengali language, the alphabet is known as “বাংলা বর্ণমালা” (pronounced ), which means “Bengali letters”. It is recognizable, as other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together which is known as 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 the Sanskrit language 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 is the writing system for the Bengali language and is the 6th most widely used writing system in the world. The Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil 0B80–0BFF, Telugu 0C00–0C7F, Kannada 0C80–0CFF, and Malayalam 0D00–0D7F blocks were similarly all based on ISCII encodings. In its original incarnation, the code points U+0981.U+09CD were a direct copy of the Bengali characters A1-ED from the 1988 ISCII standard, as well as several Assamese ISCII characters in the U+09F0 column. Bengali is a Unicode block containing characters for the Bengali, Assamese, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Khasi, Mizo, Munda, Naga, Rian, and Santali languages.
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