english alphabet pronunciation in bengali

Some similar scripts with minor differences are used to write Maithili, Bengali, Meithei and Sylheti. The Ahom king Supangmung (1663–1670) was the first ruler who started issuing Assamese coins for his kingdom. Later, Sankardev used it in the 15th and 16th centuries to compose his oeuvre in Assamese and Brajavali dialect, the literary language of the bhakti poems ( borgeets) and dramas. In the 14th century Madhava Kandali used Assamese alphabets to compose the famous Saptakanda Ramayana, which is the Assamese translation of Valmiki's Sanskrit Ramayana. The Buranjis were written during the Ahom dynasty in the Assamese language using the Assamese alphabet. The present standard is identical to the Bengali alphabet except for two letters, ৰ (ro) and ৱ (vo) and the letter ক্ষ (khya) has evolved into an individual consonant by itself with its own phonetic quality whereas in the Bengali alphabet it is a conjunct of two letters. By the 17th century three styles of Assamese alphabets could be identified ( baminiya, kaitheli and garhgaya) that converged to the standard script following typesetting required for printing. The current form of the script has seen continuous development from the 5th-century Umachal/ Nagajari-Khanikargaon rock inscriptions written in an eastern variety of the Gupta script, adopting significant traits from the Siddhaṃ script in the 7th century. This script was also used in Assam and nearby regions for Sanskrit as well as other languages such as Bodo (now Devanagari), Khasi (now Roman), Mising (now Roman), Jaintia (now Roman) etc. Don't forget to bookmark this page.The Assamese alphabet ( Assamese: অসমীয়া বৰ্ণমালা, Oxomiya bornomala) is a writing system of the Assamese language and is a part of the Bengali-Assamese script. To learn other languages please check our homepage here: Learn Languages. We hope the lessons above helped you learn Bengali. The script originated form a variety of the Sanskrit Devanagari alphabet, assuming its own characteristics in the 11th century.

The Bengali script, in its present printed form, took shape in 1778.

The difference between the two is not very sharp, however.

The former is the traditional literary style based on Middle Bengali of the 16th century, the latter is a creation of this century, based on the cultivated form of the dialect spoken in Calcutta by educated people. One is called 'Sadhubhasa' (elegant language) and the other 'Chaltibhasa' (current language). Only five other languages in the world can claim as many as 190 million speakers. The number of speakers exceeds 190 million including second language users. Bengali belongs to the Indo-European family, Indic group, and is spoken by over 120 million people in Bangladesh and over 68 million in India, in the province known as West Bengal.

English alphabet pronunciation in bengali