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Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...
banglaacademy.org.in. The Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi (Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ বাংলা আকাদেমি, pronounced [pɔʃtʃimbɔŋɡo baŋla akad̪emi], transl. West Bengal Bengali Academy) is the official regulatory body of the Bengali language in India. It was founded on 20 May 1986 in Kolkata to act as the ...
In modern Bengali, the most common sibilant varies between / ʃ ~ ɕ / – originally represented by শ, but today, স and ষ in words are often pronounced as / ɕ ~ ʃ /. The other sibilant in Bengali is / s /, originally represented by স, but today, শ and ষ, in words, can sometimes be pronounced as / s /.
Bangladesh. India. The Bengali language is native to the region of Bengal, which comprises the present-day nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Geographical distribution of the Bengali language in the world. Main language. Regional language. Overseas population of more than a million.
The Bangladesh Post Office[1] (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ডাক বিভাগ) also known by trade name Bangla Post is a government-operated agency responsible for providing postal services in Bangladesh. It is a subsidiary of the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology. [2]
Bengali personal pronouns are somewhat similar to English pronouns, having different words for first, second, and third person, and also for singular and plural (unlike for verbs, below). Bengali pronouns do not differentiate for gender; that is, the same pronoun may be used for "he" or "she".
The Daily Prothom Alo (Bengali: প্রথম আলো) is a Bengali-language daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka. It is the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh. [2] According to the National Media Survey of 2018, conducted by Kantar MRB Bangladesh, Prothom Alo has a daily readership of more than 6.6 million online.
The Bengali Wikipedia now has 158,833 articles on various topics with 1,033 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. [29] [30] It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. [31]