It is used as the official script of Bengali language in Bangladesh and West Bengal as well as Meitei language in Manipur (officially termed as ' Manipuri language'), two of the official languages of India. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. The Bengali writing system is less blocky, however, and presents a more sinuous shape than the Devanagari script.

It is recognisable, as are some other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line known as a mātrā ( মাত্রা) running along the tops of the letters that links them together. The Bengali writing system is written from left to right and uses a single letter case, which makes it a unicameral script, as opposed to a bicameral one like the Latin script. its vowel graphemes are mainly realised not as independent letters, but as diacritics modifying the vowel inherent in the base letter they are added to. įrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali writing system is an abugida, i.e. It is one of the most widely adopted writing systems in the world (used by over 265 million people). You saw how a letter is written and might be pronounced, but there is nothing better than hearing the sound of the letters in a video or audio.The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet ( Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, Bangla bôrṇômala) is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language based on the Bengali-Assamese script, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal. ষ Sound of ‘sh’ when the tongue touches the roots of the teeth ফ Sound of ‘f’ if pronounced with closed lips ধ sound produced by coupling soft ‘d’ and ‘h’= ‘dh’

ণ Nasal sound when the tongue touches a bit away from teeth ঞ Just like ‘gn’ of gnome with a slight up movement of tongue ঝ This is produced using the naval sounds while the tongue touches the upper part of mouth cavity The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Bengali language.īelow is a table showing the Bengali alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word. Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. Learning the Bengali alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation.