![]() ![]() ![]() Some people prefer to call this alphabet the Eastern Nagari script or Eastern Neo-Brahmic script The differences between the two styles are not huge and involve mainly forms of pronouns and verb conjugations. 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. A few archaic letters were modernised during the 19th century.īengali has two literary styles: one is called Sadhubhasa (elegant language) and the other Chaltibhasa (current language). The current printed form of Bengali alphabet first appeared in 1778 when Charles Wilkins developed printing in Bengali. It is also closely related to the Devanagari alphabet, from which it started to diverge in the 11th Century AD. OriginThe Bengali alphabet is derived from the Brahmi alphabet. ![]()
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