So, last time we went over all the vowels in the Bengali script. We covered a handful of consonants along the way, but now we’re heading into the thick of it, and going through the first major round of consonant sounds. I didn’t highlight it last time, but the characters in the Bangla script haveContinue reading “Bangla Script Demystified: Consonants, First Look”
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Bengali Script Demystified: Vowels
I’ve spent the last two semesters learning the Bengali language, known natively as Bangla. This East Indian and Bangladeshi language is the second most-spoken in the Indian subcontinent (after Hindi/Urdu and its dialects), and the fifth most-spoken in the whole word, by number of native speakers. Bengalis are also the third largest ethnic group inContinue reading “Bengali Script Demystified: Vowels”