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Topic: Bengali script

	Bangla (Bengali)
		Bengali (Bangla) belongs to the eastern group of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.
		Bengali is written with a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel which is not always predictable, and sometimes, is not pronounced at all.
		Bengali is a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/february/bengali.html (1134 words)

	boroksite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		With the recent reversal to Bengali script for kokborok by the oppositionless TTAADC ‘politics of kokborok’ is set to deepen and further accentuate entrenched animosities between the Tripura Communists and Tripuri intelligentsia.
		In the ongoing discourse on the script issue the broader social and political imperatives have been veiled and diluted with the debate confined to the shallow narrow question of ‘suitability’ of Bengali script for kokborok vis-a vis the Roman script.
		Bengali political elites insistence on imposing their script is a reflection of their colonial mental frame, their political project of constructing the idea of superiority of their language, their culture in the minds of Tripuris.
	k.1asphost.com /borok/bengali_script.asp (1021 words)

	Bengali
		BENGALI - The national language of Bangladesh is spoken by nearly 200,000,000 worldwide.
		Bengali belongs to the easternmost branch, called Aryan or Indo-Iranian, of the Indo-European family of languages.
		Sanskrit was the spoken as well as the literary language of Aryandom until circa 500 B.C., after which it remained for nearly two thousand years the dominant literary languages as well as the lingua franca among the cultured and the erudite throughout the subcontinent.
	www.flw.com /languages/bengali.htm (128 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bengali script
		The Bengali script is a Brahmic script whose use is primarily associated with the Bengali language, though Assamese, Manipuri and nowadays also Sylheti also utilize it.
		While effort at standardizing script 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, since different people continue to use a few older forms of letters, thus making for concurrent forms for the same sounds.
		The selection is a Bengali song, highly Sanskritized and later adopted as the national anthem of India.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bengali_script (434 words)

	Extended Bengali script
		The use of Bengali characters to express the Perso-Arabic script, especially by lexicographers and grammarians, is very old.
		In cases of representing Perso-Arabic characters with the Bengali script, Jnanendramohan Das and Suniti Kumar Chatterji's schemes are popular; most scholars prefer either of them.
		The largest dictionary of the Bengali language "A Dictionary of the Bengali Language" baa;mgaalaa bhaa.saara abhidhaana, by Jnanendramohan Das (Calcutta, 1st edn.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /stone-catend/trben.htm (2143 words)

	Virtual Bangladesh : Bengali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		The bengali script is a cursive script with 12 vowels and 52 consonants.
	www.virtualbangladesh.com /bd_bangla.html (638 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bengali language
		Bangla(বাঙলা;) or Bengali is the language spoken by the populations of Bangladesh and the neighboring state of West Bengal in India.
		Bengali is an English word referring to both the language and the people speaking the language; in Bengali the language is called Bangla, (বাঙলা;) now more widely used in international arena and became english word as well as the origin and the people are called Bangali(বাঙালী).
		Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh, administrative and official work in Bangladesh is carried out in Bengali.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bengali (1277 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh and the state language of West Bengal, India.
		Bengali is written in a script called the Bengali script.
		Bengali uses the same punctuation marks as English, except for the full stop which is represented by a vertical line.
	www.itu.dk /people/pfw/bengali/info.html (332 words)

	Overview of Bengali language and literature
		Bengali (Bangla bhasha) is one of the official languages of India, mainly spoken in the states of West Bengal and Tripura.
		It is said to have emerged as a separate language in around 1000 A.D. The Bengali literature found its base on poetry.
		This description excludes many of the stalwarts of Bengali literature (specially in the contemporary time) and is only a very short introduction to the great language.
	geocities.com /aboltabol_new/overview.htm (677 words)

	Bengali alphabet, pronunciation and language
		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)

	Bangla Language and Script
		Bengali Script: The word script/alphabet (lipi in Bengali) came from the Sanskrit lip meaning 'to plaster' or 'to apply'.
		The recent discovery of a number of seals bearing inscriptions in an unknown script, however, has brought to light that the art of writing in India is as old as the third or fourth millennium BC to which these inscriptions are referred to, on the basis of their similarity with the Sumerian.
		Bengali script has been derived from the eastern variety of Brahmi script, known as Kutilalipi which took a distinctive form around the 7th century.
	www.isical.ac.in /~rc_bangla/bangla.html (1289 words)

	Bengali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bengali, or the Eastern New Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of Bangladesh and is spoken by approximately 110 million people.
		The Bengali literature is also replete with folklore such as the Songs of Bauls, or wandering minstrels, and the Yatras, the nocturnal celebrations of the Hindu gods and goddesses.
		Bengali script is a cursive script with 12 vowels and 52 consonants and reads from left to right.
	si.unm.edu /linguistics/bengali/BENGALI.HTM (1003 words)

	Bengali - Language Directory
		Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal by approximately 190 million people.
		Bengali distinguishes four to six cases, depending on whether the word inflected represents a rational or a nonrational being or thing.
		Bengali is an English word referring to both the language and the people speaking the language; in Bengali the language is called Bangla, now more widely used in the international arena, whereas the people are called Bangali.
	language-directory.50webs.com /languages/bengali.htm (493 words)

	Language in India
		The demand for the adoption of native Meitei script, in place of the Bengali script that has been in use for over 270 years, was seen only as a minor protest agitation in early 1960s.
		The support for the Devanagari script dwindled, and the growth of the Meitei spirit in support of Meitei culture and literature was strengthened.
		The Manipur government's decision to introduce Meitei script in standards I and II from the 2005-2006 academic year also was brought about by the fierce political agitations of the student unions and alliances.
	www.languageinindia.com /june2005/meiteiscript2.html (1067 words)

	Origin of the bengali script
		Indus valley script, a script which may have been of indigenous origin, had long gone out of use.
		Aramaic script (a system suited for semitic, but not Indo-european languages where vowels formed parts of the word roots rather than merely being grammatical markers), an important trade language of the middle east in the first half of the first millenium BC.
		The western script seems to have influenced it around the 10th century, but this influence seems to go away during the reign of mahIpAla, and at least some of the letters (a, u, k, kh, g, j, dh, n, m, l, and kS) are recognizably bengali.
	tanmoy.tripod.com /bengal/script.html (604 words)

	Bengali Language,official Language of Bengal,Regional Languages of Bengal,Mother Tongue of Bengal
		Bengali or Bangla as a Bengali would say, is also a member of the Indo-European family of languages.
		The Bengali script has been derived from the Brahmi alphabet of the Ashokan inscriptions (273 to 232BC).
		Madhusudan was the first Bengali poet to write in blank verse and combined western influences into the essence Indian literature.
	www.indiasite.com /language/bengali.html (916 words)

	ishida >> writings: Bengali script notes [Draft]
		Bengali has lost the distinction between short and long i vowels in pronunciation, but retains the difference in spelling.
		Bengali has lost the distinction between short and long u vowels in pronunciation, but retains the difference in spelling.
		The distinguishing dot was added to the Bengali script in the 19th century.
	people.w3.org /rishida/scripts/bengali/bengali-script (3190 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Bengali
		Bengali is a Nagari-derived script that appeared in eastern South Asia around the 11th century CE.
		The old Bengali script (11th century CE) is also the parent to many other scripts of eastern India, such as Oriya, Manipuri, and Maithili.
		The Bengali script is used to languages in eastern India such as Bengali, Assamese, and Manipuri.
	www.ancientscripts.com /bengali.html (129 words)

	Bengali script - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bengali script (Bengali: বাংলা লিপি Bangla lipi) is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts whose use is associated with the Bangla, Assamese, Manipuri and Sylheti languages.
		The script was used to write Sanskrit for centuries, especially when dealing with Hindu scripture such as the Mahabharata or Ramayana.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bengali_script (910 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Imphal, May 15: The Bengali script will die in the only place outside Bangladesh and Bengal where it is used as the medium of writing.
		After nearly 300 years, Meitei Mayek, the script of the majority Meitei community in Manipur, will replace Bengali with the cabinet in the northeastern state taking the decision in the wake of three months of agitation.
		To pre-empt another round of agitation from non-Meiteis, the government decided to use the Roman script for Manipuri textbooks for students from these communities, who are tribals living in the hills.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050516/asp/frontpage/story_4745125.asp (453 words)

	OHCHR: Bengali () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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.
		The Bengali script, in its present printed form, took shape in 1778.
		The script originated form a variety of the Sanskrit Devanagari alphabet, assuming its own characteristics in the 11th century.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/bng.htm (156 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Meitei Mayek is the script of the Meitei community, who form over 50 per cent of Manipur’s population.
		It was abandoned under duress in the 18th century when King Pamheiba under the influence of the travelling Bengali Vaishnavite, Santidas Gossain, burnt all scriptures and other books in that script.
		The Bengali script was introduced in educational institutions after the British conquered Manipur in 1891.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050517/asp/nation/story_4749266.asp (430 words)

	Bengali Lanaugage
		Bengali is spoken in West Bengal of India.
		Bengali Alphabet: The Bengali script is a cursive script having 12 vowels and 52 consonants.
		Bengali Orthography: The Bengali script originated from Brahmi alphabet of the Asokan inscriptions.
	www.online-languagetranslators.com /bengali_language.htm (335 words)

	Bangla / Bengali Resources - bicn.com
		By the eminent Bengali linguist William Radice of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
		This is the title of a new Bengali language text by Hanne-Ruth Thompson, published by Bangla Academy, Dhaka (344pp, March 1999).
		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).
	bicn.com /bangladesh/bangla/index.htm (331 words)

	Bengali - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers
		The Bengali script (also known as Bangla) is used for the Bengali language, which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group and is the national language of Bangladesh; it is also spoken by the majority of the population of the Indian State of West Bengal.
		The Bengali script is also used for Assamese, the Indo-Aryan language of the Indian State of Assam.
		The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
	www.alanwood.net /unicode/bengali.html (367 words)

	SriCan - The Grantha Script of Sanskrit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is probably why, though the language is present in some form or the other throughout India, it has never had a common script; and Sanskrit has mostly been written in the local script.
		This is how I acquired knowledge of this script, which is rarely used in academic Sanskrit studies (except by historians to study manuscripts or inscriptions).
		Nevertheless, this ancient script should not be lost to posterity, and this is my modest attempt at helping preserve it.
	andrew.cmu.edu /user/ssubram1/articles/grantha.html (352 words)

	Bengali OpenType specification
		The Bengali script, closely related to the Devanagari script is used to write the Bengali as well as Assamese and Manipuri.
		Registered features of the Bengali script are defined and illustrated, encodings are listed, and templates are included for compiling Bengali layout tables for OpenType fonts.
		In addition to being a primer and specification for the creation and support of Bengali fonts, this document is intended to more broadly illustrate the OpenType Layout architecture, feature schemes, and operating system support for shaping and positioning text.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/otfntdev/bengalot/default.htm (241 words)

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