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Bengali–Assamese Languages
The Bengali-Assamese languages (also Gauda–Kamarupa languages) is a grouping of several languages in the eastern Indian subcontinent. This group belongs to the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Eastern zone of Indo-Aryan languages. The languages in this group, according to Glottolog, include Assamese language, Assamese, Bengali language, Bengali, Bishnupuriya language, Bishnupriya, Chakma language, Chakma, Chittagonian language, Chittagonian, Hajong language, Hajong, Kharia Thar language, Kharia Thar, Kurmukar language, Kurmukar, Mal Paharia language, Mal Paharia, Noakhali language, Noakhali, Rangpuri language, Rajbangshi, Rohingya language, Rohingya, Sylheti language, Sylheti, Tangchangya language, Tangchangya and Surjapuri language, Surjapuri. Languages Language comparison chart ''* = loanword, borrowed terms (including tatsamas, tadbhava, ardhatatsamas and other borrowings)'' ''* = loanword, borrowed terms (including tatsamas, ardhatatsamas and other borrowings)'' Verbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated with a population of over 171 million within an area of . Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the north, west, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast. It has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal to its south and is separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor, and from China by the List of Indian states, Indian state of Sikkim to its north. Dhaka, the capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city, is the nation's political, financial, and cultural centre. Chittagong is the second-largest city and the busiest port of the country. The territory of modern Bangladesh was a stronghold of many List of Buddhist kingdoms and empires, Buddhist and List of Hindu empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kharia Thar Language
Kharia Thar is an Indic language spoken by the Hill Kharia culture of India. References External linksKharia.in Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Languages of India {{IndoAryan-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Bengal
West Bengal (; Bengali language, Bengali: , , abbr. WB) is a States and union territories of India, state in the East India, eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of as of 2011. The population estimate as of 2023 is 99,723,000. West Bengal is the List of states and union territories of India by population, fourth-most populous and List of states and union territories of India by area, thirteenth-largest state by area in India, as well as the List of first-level administrative divisions by population, eighth-most populous country subdivision of the world. As a part of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Sikkim and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata, the List of metropolitan areas in India, third-largest metropolis, and List of cities in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Alphabet
The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet (, romanized: ''Bāṅlā bôrṇômālā'') is the standard writing system used to write the Bengali language, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal. An estimated 300 million people use this syllabic alphabet, which makes it 5th most commonly used writting system in the world. It is the sole national script of Bangladesh and one of the official scripts of India, especifically used in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley of Assam. The script is also used for the Meitei language in Manipur, defined by the '' Manipur Official Language (Amendment) Act, 2021''. From a classificatory point of view, the Bengali writing system is derived from the Brahmi script. It is written from left to right. It is an abugida, i.e. 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. There are no dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assam
Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, northeastern India by area and the largest in terms of population, with more than 31 million inhabitants. The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India. Assamese language, Assamese and Bodo language, Bodo are two of the official languages for the entire state and Meitei language, Meitei (Manipuri language, Manipuri) is recognised as an additional official language in three districts of Barak Valley and Hojai district. in Hojai district and for the Barak valley region, alongside Bengali language, Bengali, which is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assamese Alphabet
The Assamese alphabet () is a writing system of the Assamese language and is a part of the Bengali–Assamese script, Bengali-Assamese script. This script was also used in Assam and nearby regions for Sanskrit as well as other languages such as Bodo language (India), Bodo (now Devanagari), Khasi language, Khasi (now Latin script, Roman), Mising language, Mising (now Roman), Pnar language, Jaintia (now Roman) etc. The current form of the script has seen continuous development from the 5th-century Umachal rock inscription, Umachal/Nagajari-Khanikargaon rock inscription, Nagajari-Khanikargaon rock inscriptions written in an eastern variety of the Gupta script, adopting significant traits from the Siddhaṃ script in the 7th century. By the 17th century three styles of Assamese alphabets could be identified (''baminiya'', ''kaitheli'' and ''garhgaya'') that converged to the standard script following typesetting required for printing. The present standard is identical to the Bengal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali–Assamese Script
The Bengali–Assamese script, sometimes also known as Eastern Nagri, is an eastern Brahmic script, primarily used today for the Bengali and Assamese language spoken in eastern South Asia. It evolved from Gaudi script, also the common ancestor of the Odia and Trihuta scripts. It is commonly referred to as the ''Bengali script'' by Bengalis and the ''Assamese script'' by the Assamese, while in academic discourse it is sometimes called ''Eastern-Nāgarī''. Three of the 22 official languages of the Indian Republic— Bengali, Assamese, and Meitei—commonly use this script in writing; Bengali is also the official and national language of Bangladesh. Besides, Bengali and Assamese languages, it is also used to write Bishnupriya Manipuri, Meitei, Chakma, Santali and numerous other smaller languages spoken in eastern South Asia. Historically, it was used to write various Old and Middle Indo-Aryan languages, and, like many other Brahmic scripts, is still used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surjapuri Language
Surjapuri is an Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in Eastern India including some eastern parts of Purnia division of Bihar, parts of Uttar Dinajpur district in West Bengal and Goalpara Division of Assam in India, as well as Jhapa district in Nepal and Thakurgaon district in Bangladesh. Among speakers in some regions, it is known as 'Deshi Bhasa'. It possesses similarities with Kamatapuri, Assamese, Bengali, and Maithili. Geographical distribution Surjapuri is mainly spoken in some parts of Purnia division ( Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, and Araria districts) of Bihar. It is also spoken in West Bengal (some parts of Islampur subdivision of Uttar Dinajpur district and Jalpaiguri division in northern Bengal region), Bangladesh ( Thakurgaon District) as well as in parts of eastern Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangchangya Language
The Tanchangya language is one of the eleven indigenous languages spoken in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Mizoram, Tripura, and Rakhine State. Despite the common belief that it is a Tibeto-Burman language, it is categorized as a Indo-Aryan language. It is closely related to Chakma and Chittagonian. It is primarily spoken by the Tanchangyas people. Vocabulary Tanchangya has many words from Indo-Aryan languages The Indo-Aryan languages, or sometimes Indic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. As of 2024, there are more than 1.5 billion speakers, primarily concentrated east .... It also maintains some Burmanised words, particularly in Buddhist terminologies. Ancient Tanchangya The original words of Tanchangya are believed to be from ancient Tanchangya.Roti Kanta Tanchangya (2000): 62-65 Tibeto-Burman Tanchangay belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family; hence, many Buddhist terms can be fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylheti Language
Sylheti (Sylheti Nagri: , ''síloṭi'', ; , ''sileṭi'', ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken by an estimated 11 million people, primarily in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, Barak Valley of Assam, and northern parts of Tripura in India."Sylheti is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 11 million people in India and Bangladesh (Hammarström et al., 2017). Sylheti is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language, primarily spoken in the Sylhet division of Bangladesh, and in Barak valley, in Assam of the India and in the northern parts of the state of Tripura in India." Besides, there are substantial numbers of Sylheti speakers in the Indian states of Meghalaya, Manipur, and Nagaland as well as diaspora communities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and the Middle East. It is variously perceived as either a Bengali dialects, dialect of Bengali or a language in its own right. While most linguists consider it an independent language,"Along the linguistic co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rohingya Language
Rohingya (; Hanifi Rohingya: , ,, ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Rohingya people living in Rakhine State, Myanmar and Chittagong Division of Bangladesh. It is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Bengali–Assamese branch, and is closely related to the Chittagonian language spoken in neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rohingya and Chittagonian languages have a high degree of mutual intelligibility. Phonology Consonants Rohingya has primarily the following 25 native consonant phonemes. There are some other consonant phonemes which are from foreign languages such as Arabic, Bengali, Burmese and Urdu. * A dental fricative may also be heard in words of Arabic origin. * is only used in words of foreign origin. * is heard as when preceding . * Allophones of can be heard as . Vowels * Short allophones of are heard as , . Allophones of are heard as . There are six vowels and several diphthongs in the Rohingya language. They contrast between " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangpuri Language
Rangpuri (Rangpuri: অংপুরি ''Ôṅgpuri'' or অমপুরি ''Ômpuri'') is an eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali–Assamese languages, Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, northern West Bengal and western Goalpara region, Goalpara of Assam in India. Many are bilingual in Bengali language, Bengali and Assamese language, Assamese in their respective regions. According to Glottolog, it forms the Central-Eastern Kamta group with the Kamta language. Together with Rajbanshi language (Nepal), Rajbanshi and Surjapuri language, Surjapuri they form the KRNB lects, Kamta group of languages. Names Rangpuri goes by numerous names, the most common being ''Bahe'';"Rangpuri: This term is favoured in the Rangpur area, interchangeably with ‘Bahe.’ Chaudhuri (1939) prefers to use Rangpuri to Rajbanshi, as it avoids the problem of being caste-centric." H though ''Deshi bhasha'' and ''Anchalit bhasha'' is also use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
