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	Encyclopedia: Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		An alphabet is a complete standardized set of letters â” basic written symbols â” each of which roughly represents a phoneme of a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it may have been in the past.
		Notable exceptions are the Braille alphabet, Morse code and the cuneiform alphabet of the ancient city of Ugarit.
		In a perfectly phonological alphabet, the phonemes and letters would correspond perfectly in two directions: a writer could predict the spelling of a word given its pronunciation, and a speaker could predict the pronunciation of a word given its spelling.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alphabet (4865 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Bengali
		Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language and evolved from Sanskrit.
		For old Bengali the only records are mystic carya songs discovered in a MS from Nepal by Haraprasad Shastri.The language of the carya songs is basically vernacular, but at the same time it is also something of a literary language.
		The Bengali script, like all other Indian scripts, originated from Brahmi alphabet of the Asokan inscriptions.The Bengali alphabet in its present printed form took shape in 1778 when printing types were first cast by Charles Wilkins.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /bd_bangla.html (638 words)

	Bengali script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		While efforts at standardizing the script for the Bengali language continue in such notable centers as the Bangla Academies (unaffiliated) at Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Kolkata (West Bengal, India), it is still not quite uniform as yet, as many people continue to use various archaic forms of letters, resulting in concurrent forms for the same sounds.
		The large alphabet can be represented, with a great deal of ingenuity, within the ASCII character set, omitting certain irregular conjuncts.
		For example, the Bengali script has two symbols for the vowel sound [i] and two symbols for the vowel sound [u].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bengali_script (710 words)

	Ol Chiki script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Previously, Santali had been written with the Bengali alphabet, Oriya alphabet, or Latin alphabet, on the rare occasions it was written at all.
		But because Santali is not an Indo-European language (like most other languages in the north of India), Indic scripts didn't have letters for all of Santali's phonemes, especially its stop consonants and vowels, which made writing the language accurately in an unmodified Indic script difficult.
		Unlike most Indic scripts, which are derived from Brahmi (and possibly originally from the Phoenician abjad, like the Latin alphabet), Ol Chiki is a true alphabet, not an abugida, with vowels given equal representation with consonants.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santali_alphabet (290 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Bengali Script
		Bengali, which developed toward the end of the 14th century, belongs to the Indo-Aryan language group.
		But its writing system is used not only for Bengali, Assamese, and other Indian languages in that group, but also for writing several languages in the Tibeto-Burman language subfamily.
		The photograph shows a page with letters of the Bengali alphabet and their pronunciations in Roman letters.
	encarta.msn.com /media_1201500210/Bengali_Script.html (76 words)

	Bengali alphabet
		The Bengali alphabet is derived from the Brahmi alphabet.
		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 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.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/bengali.htm (526 words)

	Manipuri alphabet (Meetei Mayek)
		The origins of the Manipuri alphabet, or Meetei Mayek as it is know in Manipuri, are shrouded in mystery as many historical documents were destroyed at the beginning of the 18th century during the reign of King Pamheiba.
		Some believe the alphabet has been used for almost 4,000 years, while others think it developed from the Bengali alphabet during the 17th century.
		Between 1709 and the middle of the 20th century, the Manipuri language was written with the Bengali alphabet.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/manipuri.htm (263 words)

	Catchcal.Com > Kaleidoscope > Culture > Literature > Modern Era In Bengali Literature
		The oldest specimen of Bengali prose found till date, is a missive written by King Nara Narayan of CoochBihar in 1515 A.D. The language employed here, though not essentially modern, is not incomprehensible.
		However, Bengali Prose started to become more natural and spontaneous from the 17th century A.D. It was in 1778 that the first Bengali alphabet in metallic inscription appeared in 'A Grammar of the Bengali Language'.
		At the inception of the 19th century, Bengali prose was confined within the limits of a handful of contemporary journals and magazines and sporadic debates and discussions hither and thither.
	www.catchcal.com /kaleidoscope/literature/literature2.asp (2166 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The first letter of the Bengali alphabet takes the shape of a bird by the brush of Abanindranath Tagore.
		Inspired by the curves, angles and curlicues of the alphabet, Abanindranath gave free rein to his brush strokes as they traced fancy-free figures.
		Abanindranath experimented with the Bengali alphabet on plain paper and the pencil lines and brush strokes still look quite fresh.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030704/asp/calcutta/story_2130081.asp (569 words)

	Bangla / Bengali Resources - bicn.com
		By the eminent Bengali linguist William Radice of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
		To demonstrate this: If you ask a Bengali speaker what pregnant means in Bengali he will probably tell you gorbhohoti; but when he talks with his wife he will undoubtedly say pete bacca (a baby in the womb).
		It's can also be helpful to have a Bengali font on your computer, that to the extent possible places the Bangla letters at the key of the phonetically closest Latin alphabet equivalent.
	www.bicn.com /bangladesh/bangla (331 words)

	GreatCoin.com - Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Armenia has its very own alphabet, which was modeled after the Greek alphabet and modified in 401 – 406 A.D. The Armenian alphabet has 39 letters.
		The Bengali alphabet in its present printed form took shape in 1778 when printing types were first cast.
		This is a good note to collect if you are interested in world alphabets or if you are interested in notes with animals on them.
	www.greatcoin.com /Products6.htm (541 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		His elder brother, Onko, is one of the well-known programmers of the country and among the pioneers of the use and development of Bengali in computing.
		Even then, it was simply a project for the term final and concentrated more on his use of the C++ language rather than any of the higher stuff that he later had to go into.
		At the moment, the Bengali spell checker uses developed algorithms to compare words based on their pronunciations and is perfectly compatible with Microsoft Word.
	www.thedailystar.net /rising/2003/07/05 (1512 words)

	BANGLA - The Official Language of Bangladesh
		Kazi Nazrul Islam's revolutionary poetry and sense of Bengali nationalism developped rapport with the Bengali Language Movement of the 1950's and 1960's which ultimately lead to the estblishment of Bangladesh as a sovereign state.
		Jasimuddin, is recognized as the embodiment of Bengali folk culture as his inspiration was derived from the life of peasant farmer, fishermen, boatmen and the wandering gypsies.
		Hilali's "Learning Bengali" [3] has an introduction to the vowel and consonant system of Bangla, which whilst it is only a few pages, is comprehensive.
	www.betelco.com /bd/bangla/bangla.html (1995 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bengali (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Bengali (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
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		Bengali[bengAl´E] Pronunciation Key, language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bengali.html (132 words)

	Bengali Writer Font Utilities - PostScript Type 1 Fonts
		The former defines the unslanted Bengali alphabet, whereas the later its slanted version.
		That is, physically insert bnr.gsf and/or bnsl.gsf in your PostScript file and call these as /Bengali and /Bengali-slanted respectively.
		We will now describe how ghostscript help you generate a printer file that can be directly fed to the printer for Bengali output.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/6024/psfonts.html (637 words)

	getpakistan.com: Mansur Rahi Profile
		With the prayers and blessings of all the near relations gathered at the home, the child is guided to write the first letter of the Bengali alphabet.
		Then taking hold of the chalk, the little Rahi of four years went down on the all fours and started reaching out as far as he could with his small arms to fill the entire floor of the verandah or patio with his writing.
		While his admiring relations watched and wonder, he had executed the first letter of the Bangali alphabet with correct proportions on an enormous size.
	www.getpakistan.com /home/art/Mansur_rahi_082401.htm (1673 words)

	Bengali Lesson 1Ukindia
		Bengali is a very poetic and popular language of the subcontinent.
		It is the mother tongue of Bangladesh and of West Bengal and is also spoken in immigrant communities in the West.
		But my point is: the distinction between short and long has been lost in Bengali, and speakers make no distinction unless they consciously try to force the spelling back on to the pronunciation, which yields an artificial sound.
	www.ukindia.com /zip/zben01.htm (831 words)

	Bengali Writer Utilities
		This is a utility that converts a text written in Roman to a text in Bengali.
		BWTI is a package for writing Bengali text using TeX or LaTeX.
		It consists of METAFONT files for the definition of the Bengali alphabet and a style file for transliterating English texts to the Bengali format.
	www.geocities.com /SiliconValley/Lab/6024/bengali.html (485 words)

	frizzyLogic: Written in the wrong script
		What the story doesn't mention is that when the Mayek script was replaced by the Bengali script in the 18th century it was accompanied by a mass-burning of books in the Mayek script.
		What your link doesn't tell you is that "Some believe the alphabet has been used for almost 4,000 years, while others think it developed from the Bengali alphabet during the 17th century." (before being all but wiped out in 1709).(http://www.omniglot.com/writing/manipuri.htm) It would take a sensitive historian to sort that one out.
		The scripting battle in India is closely related to the various decisions to use Gaelic spellings and a Gaelic version of the Roman alphabet on street signs in Ireland.
	www.frizzylogic.org /archives/000734.html (604 words)

	Phrasebase™ - obviously BENGALI :)
		Thanks for your email - I am english speaking but I know a little Bengali and was wanting to start something as it seemed that there was no one who could help me so I decided to help with the little that I knew.
		There have been some good articles on the Bengali alphabet and Sjappie managed to include a copy of the Bangla script for us all - great well done.
		It is one thing to learn the Bengali alphabet — its another thing that is more difficult to make the proper pronunciation.
	www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=4989#68820 (630 words)

	Alpona Portal: Bangla Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Bengali script also used to write Assamese in Assam and a number of other minority languages, such as Manipuri, Khasi, Munda, Mizo, Daphla, Garo, Hallam, Naga, Rian and Santali etc. Because of the official language of Bangladesh, most of time the name is used of Bangla.
		To modernize our Bengali - alphabet, spelling and typography (etc.), a meaningful and sufficiently workable encoding standard should be developed for computerization.
		World is rapidly forwarding and all peoples comes more closer, so that a unique standard should be maintained to build-up the community.
	www.akshor.com /computing.html (185 words)

	Bengali Language Study Bookstore: Bengali Language Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Bengali Language Books In Association with Amazon.Com Books
		Bengali : A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself Series)(BOOK and 2 Cassettes)
		Bengali : A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself)
	www.smokefreekids.com /bengali.htm (46 words)

	IANC Bengali Books, Bengali Dictionary, Bengali Songs
		Bengali : A Complete Course for Beginners By Radice (Teach Yourself Books), Audio Cassette inc.
		Rabindranath Tagore, William Butler Yeats (Introduction) "These are the poems that won Tagore the Nobel Prize for literature".
		Bengali Cooking : Seasons and Festivals Chitrita Banerji, Deborah Madison
	members.tripod.com /~malaiya/bengalibooks.html (296 words)

	Search Tuna Report for bangladesh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		MSF is an independent international medical relief organization that aids victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack healthcare due to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization.
		BENGALI ALPHABET www iglot writing bengali Sample text Translation All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights....
		Wednesday Mar 23 Adivasis ignored in independence war history, says Santu Larma The jumm people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts have been excluded from the history of liberation despite their active role in the 1971 independence war....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/1136.html (1659 words)

	BanglaSoftware Group - Offering FREE Bengali Software with no special keyboard necessary.
		Bangla text is entered using only the vowels (swarabarnas) and the consonant (banjonbarnos).
		The conjunct characters (juktho okkors) are placed automatically by the system if possible otherwise when indicated by the user.
		Bengali alphabet is mapped phonetically on to the standard QWERTY keyboard, independent of any Bangla font.
	www.banglasoftware.com (180 words)

	Keep in Touch Newsletters published by WTB Language Group Inc. on language, translation and typesetting related issues.
		I was also expecting the characters that are used to write down the alphabet for these languages to be unusual.
		And, I was very surprised when I discovered that - in fact, those languages and approximately 100 others are using the Latin script.
		It seems that the Latin alphabet is the most widely spread around the world - about 2 billion people use this writing system.
	www.wintranslation.com /newsletters/June2005Newsletter.htm (1320 words)

	KryssTal : Writing - Bengali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Bengali script is a derivative of the
		It is more angular and has some different letters.
		[Evolution of Writing] [Evolution of the Latin Alphabet]
	www.krysstal.com /writing_bengali.html (25 words)

	amazon.com - Vedic Books
		Vedic Concordance (Being an Alphabetic Index to every line of every stanza of the published Vedic Literature and to the Liturgical Formulas thereof, that is an Index to the Vedic Mantras, Together with an Account of their Variations in the Different Vedic Books)
		Learning the Bengali Alphabet by Bani Paul, Sachin Basak
		Bengali: A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself Series)(BOOK & 2 Cassettes) by William Radice
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /site/amazon.htm (3290 words)

	IPL Kidspace: Say Hello to the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Bangladesh: A New State in an Ancient Land
		There are 162,070,000 people who speak Bengali in Bangladesh, India, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and the United States of America.
		Now you can say hello to 162,070,000 people!
	www.ipl.org /youth/hello/bengali.html (66 words)

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