Bengali Alphabet, Pronunciation and Language

Bengali alphabet, pronunciation and language

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Assamese, an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 15 million people in the Indian states of

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Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and also spoken in Bangladesh and Bhutan.

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Manipuri, one of the official languages of the Indian state of Manipur in north-east India and has about

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1.1 million speakers. It is a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and also has its own alphabet

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Garo, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by about 800,000 people in the Indian states of Meghalaya and Assam, and also in Bangladesh. Mundari, a Munda language with about two million speakers in eastern India, mainly in the Indian state of Bihar, also in Bangladesh and Nepal. It has been written with the Devanagari, Bengali, Oriya and Latin alphabets.

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http://www.jaspell.co.uk/learnbengali.htm http://mylanguages.org/learn_bengali.php http://www.bangla-online.info http://www.bangalinet.com/learn_bangla.htm Numbers in Bengali http://mylanguages.org/bengali_numbers.php http://www.connect-bangladesh.org/bangla/Numbers.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQtAKx8K40 Ekushey - an add-on for MS Word which enables you to type in Bengali or Assamese http://www.altruists.org/projects/ek/ Online Bengali Dictionaries http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/dictionary.html http://www.bangladict.org http://www.abhidhan.com http://www.bengali-dictionary.com Free bengali fonts http://www.ekushey.org/index.php/page/otf_bangla_fonts http://scriptsource.org/scr/Beng http://www.omicronlab.com/bangla-fonts.html http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/ http://banglafont.com http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Bengali.html Online radio in Bengali http://www.bbc.co.uk/bengali/ http://www.washingtonbanglaradio.com/ http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,615,00.html http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/bengali/top/ http://www.banglaradio.org.au http://www1.voanews.com/bangla/news/ Online Bengali magazines http://www.parabaas.com http://www.kheyal.com http://ajantrik.8m.net




http://www.abasar.net http://www.freewebs.com/guruchandali/ http://www.sulekhapatrika.com Viswayan - information about Bengali language, literature, drama, video, etc. http://www.viswayan.com/ Bangali jokes http://www.banglajokes.net/ ALPHABETUM - a Unicode font specifically designed for ancient scripts, including classical & medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberian, Celtiberian, Gothic, Runic, Old & Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Old Nordic, Ogham, Kharosthi, Glagolitic, Old Cyrillic, Phoenician, Avestan, Ugaritic, Linear B, Anatolian scripts, Coptic, Cypriot, Brahmi, Old Persian cuneiform: http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/~jmag0042/alphabet.html

Indo-Aryan languages Awadhi, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Chakma, Dhivehi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Kotia, Kutchi, Maithili, Marathi, Marwari, Modi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Romany, Saraiki, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sourashtra, Sugali, Sylheti, Urdu

Languages written with the Bengali alphabet Bengali, Garo, Manipuri, Mundari, Sylheti Also used to write: Bishnupriya, Bodo, Chakma, Chiru, Koda, Nisi, Deori, Dimasa, Hajong, Koch, Khasi, Kudmali, Tiwa, Sauria Paharia, Miri, Chothe Naga, Thangal Naga, Moyon Naga, Maring Naga, Rabha, Rangpuri, Santali, Sadri, Oraon Sadri, Sulung, Panchpargania, Tippera, Kok Borok, Toto and Usui.

Syllabic alphabets / abugidas Ahom, Badaga, Balinese, Batak, Baybayin (Tagalog), Bengali, Brahmi, Buhid, Burmese, Chakma, Cham, Dehong Dai, Devanagari, Dhives Akuru, Ethiopic, Evēla Akuru, Gondi, Grantha, Gujarati, Gupta, Gurmukhi, Hanuno'o, Javanese, Kaithi, Kannada, Kharosthi, Khmer, Khojki, Lanna, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Lontara/Makasar, Malayalam, Manpuri, Modi, Mongolian Horizontal Square Script, New Tai Lue, Oriya, Pahawh Hmong, Pallava, Phags-pa, Ranjana, Redjang, Shan, Sharda, Siddham, Sindhi, Sinhala, Sorang Sompeng, Sourashtra, Soyombo, Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Tagbanwa, Takri, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tocharian, Tolong Siki, Tulu, Varang Kshiti



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