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Banglish, also known as Bangreji, Benglish and Bonglish, [1] is the mixed use ("code switching") [2] of the Bengali and English languages. The first usage of the word "Benglish" was found in 1972 and "Banglish" in 1975.
However, gradually he started to like western music. He learned Scottish, Irish and English songs from a music teacher. He liked those songs so much that when he came to the country, he translated about thirty songs into Bengali, and maintain their original tone. Finally, he returned to written and composed Bengali songs.
Joy Bangla (Bengali: জয় বাংলা; meaning 'Glory to Bengal') written in Bengali alphabet, in Pan-Bengali colours, red and white, is a slogan and war cry to indicate nationalism towards the geopolitical, cultural and historical region of Bengal and Bangamata (also known as Bangla Maa: বাংলা মা or Mother Bengal) Map of Bengali language in Bangladesh and India ...
Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847–1911) was the first major writer in the modern era to emerge from the Bengali Muslim society, and one of the finest prose writers in the Bengali language. His magnum opus Bishad Shindhu is a popular classic among Bengali readership.
They were known as 'Kulacharya' and used to maintain books with detailed histories of families. [2] Some of these books have been used as sources for writing the history of Bengal. Some of the well-known matchmakers were Edu Mishra, Hari Mishra (c 13th century), Dhruvananda Mishra, Debibar Ghatak (15th century) and Nulo Panchanan (18th century).
Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...
The Bengali Wikipedia now has 161,832 articles on various topics with 1,115 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. [29] [30] It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. [31]
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