Bangla Alphabet - Know About Bangla Alphabet
Posted by: farzana kanak
on Jul 15, 2009 
The Bangla language, which developed in the 11th century, belongs to the Indo-Aryan language group. Bangla lipi is a variant of the Eastern Nagari script. Its writing system is used not only for Bangla, but also for Assamese, and other Indian languages in that group. The photograph shows a page with letters of the Bangla alphabet and their pronunciations in Roman letters.
The script was originally used to write Sanskrit, which for centuries was the only written language of the Indian subcontinent in addition to Tamil.
| Letter | Name of letter | Vowel sign with [kɔ] (ক) | Name of vowel sign | Transliteration | IPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| অ | shôro ô (shôre ô) | (none) | (none) | kô and ko | /kɔ/ and /ko/ |
| আ | shôro a (shôre a) | কা | akar | ka | /ka/ |
| ই | hrôshsho i (hrôshsho i) | কি | hrôshsho ikar (roshshikar) | ki | /ki/ |
| ঈ | dirgho i | কী | dirgho ikar (dirghikar) | kī | /kiː/ |
| hrôshsho u (rôshsho u) | কু | hrôshsho ukar (roshshukar) | ku | /ku/ | |
| ঊ | dirgho u | কূ | dirgho ukar (dirghukar) | kū | /kuː/ |
| ঋ | ri | কৃ | rikar/rifôla | kri | /kri/ |
| এ | e | কে | ekar | kê and ke | /kæ/ and /ke/ |
| ঐ | oi | কৈ | oikar | koi | /koj/ |
| ও | o | কো | okar | ko | /ko/ |
| ঔ | ou | কৌ | oukar | kou | /kow/ |
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.
Use Of Bangla Alphabet:
Bengali, an eastern Indo-Aryan language with around 211 million speakers in Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal and also in Malawi, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, the UAE, UK and USA.
Assamese, an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 15 million people in the Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and also spoken in Bangladesh and Bhutan.
Manipuri, one of the official languages of the Indian state of Manipur in north-east India and has about 1.1 million speakers. It is a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Also has it's own alphabet
Garo, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by about 500,000 people in the Brahmaputra valley in the Indian state of Assam.
Mundari, a Munda language with about 850,000 speakers in eastern India, mainly in the Indian state of Bihar. Also written with the Devanagari, Bengali, Oriya and Latin alphabets.
Here is the Bengali Alphabet
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