The Bengali script evolved from the Siddhaṃ script, which belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts.

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The Bengali script is however less blocky and presents a more sinuous shape. It is recognizable, as are other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together which is known as মাত্রা matra. It is written from left to right and lacks distinct letter cases.

its vowel graphemes are mainly realized not as independent letters, but as diacritics attached to its consonant letters. Historically, the script has also been used to write Sanskrit in the region of Bengal.įrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali script is an abugida, i.e. The script is shared by Assamese with minor variations, and is the basis for the other writing systems like Meithei and Bishnupriya Manipuri. The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet ( Bengali: বাংলা লিপি Bangla lipi) is the writing system for the Bengali language and is the 6th most widely used writing system in the world. Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Without proper rendering support, you may see errors in display. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols.

Bengali alphabet and pronunciation