The new shape, a signature (known in Bangla as a “kar”), then might proceed, come after, be around or at the bottom of the consonant.Īs to consonants Bangla includes 39 characters. All Bangla vowels in the initial position of a word retain their original shape (see table below to see the traditional arrangement of Bangla vowe.However, with the exception of the first vowel (“a”) which has no signature and is always implicit in the consonant, they all change their shape when used with a consonant.
All Bangla vowels can be nasalised by using the nasal sign called “chondrobindu” (meaning moon dot). The following information is intended to be a brief overview of Bangla.Īs to the vowels there are eleven vowels in Bengali with seven sounds – long and short. Hilali’s “Learning Bengali” has an introduction to the vowel and consonant system of Bangla, which whilst it is only a few pages, is comprehensive. This is best demonstrated with the famous Bangla author, film-director Satyajit Rai – a more appropriate transliteration of his name would be Shotojit Rai.ĭr. Thus the implicit ‘o’ (after a consonant) in Bangla, is replaced with the implicit ‘a’ (after a consonant) of Hindi. (iii) transliterations tend to be very poor as most Bangla is transliterated via Hindi. (ii) the Bangla alphabet, unlike the Greek and Roman alphabets, is arranged in a logical fashion: Vowels first, then consonants (velars, palatals, retroflex, dentals, labials), semi-vowels and dipthongs and
(i) the sooner one learns the alphabet, the more aware one is of the complicated sound system which is nearly impossible to represent in Latin script When learning Bangla it is best to try to get to grips with the alphabet as To start off with Bangla does not have the concept of upper or lower case letters.
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