The first native name for Bengali was Gauda-bhasa in 16th century. In 19th century Vanga-bhasa or Bangala-bhasa. Currently it is known as Bangla-bhasa.

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Ancient
Although Sanskrit was practised by Hindu Brahmins in Bengal since the first millennium BCE, the local Buddhist population were speaking in some varieties of the Prakrita languages. These varieties generally referred

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The Bengali language is native to the region of Bengal, which comprises the present-day nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of

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Bengali nouns are not assigned gender, which leads to minimal changing of adjectives (inflection). However, nouns and pronouns are moderately declined (altered depending on their function in a sentence) into four cases while verbs are heavily

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Bengali has as many as 100,000 separate words, of which 50,000 are considered Tadbhavas, 21,100 are Tatsamas and the remainder loanwords from Austroasiatic and other foreign

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The following is a sample text in Bengali of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

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Bengali-Assamese script is an abugida, a script with letters for consonants, diacritics for vowels, and in which an inherent vowel (অ ô) is assumed for consonants if no vowel is

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