The official Hindi alphabet has 46 letters divided into 11 vowels and 35 consonants. Learning Bengali Alphabet for English Speakers - Isaul Karim. Print colors may vary slightly due to different color screens. Hindi is also classified as consonants and vowels. Thakurmar Jhuli - Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumdar.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ONLY It later diverged from the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages tree around 950 C.E.įun fact: Bengali is non-gendered so whereas other languages might make a pen female, all pens in Bengal are simply pens. Bengali has origins that trace back to Sanskrit which was once the lingua franca of the South Asian subcontinent and spoken among the most erudite of society. The Bengali alphabet has 50 letters which consists of 11 stand-alone vowels and 39 consonant + vowel sounds. Many people in Bangladesh and West Bengal have two given names: a 'good name' (Bengali:, romanized: Bhalo Nam), which is used on all legal documents, and a 'call name' or 'nickname' (Bengali:, romanized: Dak Nam), which is used by family members and close friends. You can use them as a memory game to play and learn or just as flashcards.īengali বাংলা is the main language spoken in Bangladesh and has more speakers-some 190 million-than all but a handful of other languages in the world. An estimated 300 million people use this syllabic alphabet, which is derived from the Brahmi alphabet and is closely related to. Print these educational carts to play and learn with your kids the Bengali alphabet letters.

These colorful alphabet flashcards in Bengali বাংলা are perfect to teach children the ABCs.

The bengali alphabet