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At Live Lingua we believe that everybody should be able to learn another language. This is why we have made available these Free US Peace Corps Bengali. Useful Bengali phrases. A collection of useful phrases in Bengali, an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in mainly Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and South Assam.

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Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language with around 300 million speakers mainly in Bangladesh, and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and South Assam. Bengali is the national and official language of Bangladesh, and one of the official languages in India. It is also spoken in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Bengali at a glance

• Native name: বাংলা (Bangla) [ˈbaŋla]
• Linguistic affliation: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Eastern Zone (Magadhan), Bengali–Assamese
• Number of speakers: c. 300 million
• Spoken in: Bangladesh and India
• First written: 11th century
• Writing system: Brahmi and Bengali alphabets
• Status: official language in Bengali, and one of the official languages of India

There are some differences in pronunciation and vocabulary between the Bengali of Bangladesh and the Bengali spoken in India.

Written Bengali

The Bengali alphabet (বাংলা লিপি - Bangla lipi) is derived from the Brahmi alphabet. It is also closely related to the Devanagari alphabet, from which it started to diverge in the 11th Century AD. The current printed form of Bengali alphabet first appeared in 1778 when Charles Wilkins developed printing in Bengali. Windows 7 32 bit torrent. A few archaic letters were modernised during the 19th century.

Bengali has two literary styles: one is called Sadhubhaṣa (সাধুভাষা - 'elegant language') and the other Chôlitôbhasha (চলিতভাষা 'current language'). The former is the traditional literary style based on Middle Bengali of the sixteenth century, while the later is a 20th century creation and is based on the speech of educated people in Calcutta. The differences between the two styles are not huge and involve mainly forms of pronouns and verb conjugations.

Learning Bengali Language

Some people prefer to call this alphabet the Eastern Nagari script or Eastern Neo-Brahmic script

Notable features

• The Bengali alphabet is a syllabic alphabet in which consonants all have an inherent vowel which has two different pronunciations, the choice of which is not always easy to determine and which is sometimes not pronounced at all.
• Vowels can be written as independent letters, or by using a variety of diacritical marks which are written above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to.
• When consonants occur together in clusters, special conjunct letters are used. The letters for the consonants other than the final one in the group are reduced. The inherent vowel only applies to the final consonant.

Bengali alphabet

Vowels (স্বরবর্ণ)

How to write Bengali vowels:

Consonants (ব্যঞ্জনবর্ণ)

How to write Bengali consonants:

A selection of conjunct consonants

Other symbols

Numerals

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Sample text in Bengali

Transliteration

Sômôstô manush shadhinbhabe sôman môrjada ebông ôdhikar niye jônmôgrôhôn kôre. Tãder bibek ebông buddhi achhe; sutôrang sôkôleri êke ôpôrer prôti bhratrittôsulôbh mônobhab niye achôrôn kôra uchit.

Transcription (IPA)

ʃɔmost̪o manuʃ ʃad̪ʱinbʱabe ʃɔman mɔɾd͡ʒad̪a eboŋ od̪ʱikaɾ nije d͡ʒɔnmogɾohon kɔɾe. t̪ãd̪eɾ bibek eboŋ bud̪ːʱi at͡ʃʰe, ʃut̪oɾaŋ ʃɔkoleɾi ɛke ɔpoɾeɾ pɾot̪i bʱɾat̪ɾit̪ːoʃulɔbʱ monobʱab nije at͡ʃɔɾon kɔɾa ut͡ʃit̪.

Transliteration and IPA transcription by Abu Saleh Mohammad Sultan

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Sample videos in Bengali

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Links

Information about Bengali
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language
http://www.betelco.com/bd/bangla/bangla.html
http://www.viswayan.com/

Online Bengali lessons
http://www.bangla-online.info
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/bengali_index.html
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

Bengali phrases
http://www.17-minute-world-languages.com/en/bengali/
http://mylanguages.org/multimedia/bengali_audio_phrases.php
http://www.masteranylanguage.com/c/p/o/Bengali
http://www.bengali-dictionary.com
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Basic_Bengali_phrases
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bengali/Common_phrases
https://www.memrise.com/course/971816/bangla-100-basic-banglabengali-phrasesnotyping/
http://wikitravel.org/en/Bengali_phrasebook

Online Bengali Dictionaries
http://www.bengali-dictionary.com
http://www.bdword.com/english-to-bengali-dictionary
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/biswas-bengali/
http://ovidhan.org
http://www.aldictionary.com/dictionary/english-to-bengali.html

Bengali 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

Online Bengali news
http://www.parabaas.com
http://www.kheyal.com
http://ajantrik.8m.net
http://www.abasar.net

Bengali and Sylheti Language Services
http://www.bengaliandsylheti.com

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Indo-Aryan languages

Awadhi, Assamese, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Chakma, Dhivehi, Domari, Fiji Hindi, Garhwali, Gujarati, Hajong, Hindi, Kashmiri, Konkani, Kotia, Kutchi, Magahi, Maithili, Marathi, Marwari, Modi, Nepali, Odia, Palula, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Rohingya, Romani, Saraiki, Sarnámi Hindustani, Sindhi, Sinhala, Shina, Sourashtra, Sugali, Sylheti, Torwali, Urdu

Languages written with the Eastern Nagari (Bengali) alphabet

• Atong,
• Bengali,
• Garo,
• Hajong,
• Manipuri,
• Mundari,

Also used to write: Bishnupriya, Bodo, Chakma, Chiru, Koda, Nisi, Deori, Dimasa, 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,
• Bilang-bilang,
• Bima,
• Blackfoot,
• Brahmi,
• Buhid,
• Burmese,
• Carrier,
• Chakma,
• Cham,
• Cree,
• Dehong Dai,
• Devanagari,
• Ditema,
• Dives Akuru,
• Ethiopic,
• Evēla Akuru,
• Fraser,
• Gondi,
• Grantha,
• Gujarati,
• Gupta,
• Gurmukhi,
• Hanifi,
• Hanuno'o,
• Inuktitut,
• Javanese,
• Jenticha,
• Kaithi,
• Kannada,
• Kawi,
• Kerinci,
• Kharosthi,
• Khmer,
• Khojki,
• Kulitan,
• Lampung,
• Lanna,
• Lao,
• Lepcha,
• Limbu,
• Lontara/Makasar,
• Lota Ende,
• Malayalam,
• Manpuri,
• Meroïtic,
• Modi,
• Mon,
• Mongolian Horizontal Square Script,
• Ojibwe,
• Odia,
• Pahawh Hmong,
• Pallava,
• Phags-pa,
• Ranjana,
• Redjang,
• Sasak,
• Satera Jontal,
• Shan,
• Sharda,
• Siddham,
• Sindhi,
• Sinhala,
• Sorang Sompeng,
• Sourashtra,
• Soyombo,
• Sundanese,
• Syloti Nagri,
• Tagbanwa,
• Takri,
• Tamil,
• Thaana,
• Telugu,
• Thai,
• Tibetan,
• Tigalari (Tulu),
• Tikamuli,
• Tocharian,
• Tolong Siki,

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