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  2. Languages of Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    In terms of writing systems, Ethiopia's principal orthography is the Ge'ez script, employed as an abugida for several of the country's languages. For instance, it was the primary writing system for Afan Oromo until 1991.

  3. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Various forms of the language are in use today and provide an important force for Bengali cohesion. These distinct forms can be sorted into three categories. The first is Classical Bengali ( সাধু ভাষা Śadhu Bhaśa ), which was a historical form restricted to literary usage up until the late British period.

  4. Bengali dialects - Wikipedia

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    The influence of Tibeto-Burman languages on the phonology of eastern Bengali is seen through the lack of nasalised vowels, an alveolar articulation for the Retroflex stops ট [ʈ], ঠ [ʈʰ], ড [ɖ], and ঢ [ɖʱ], resembling the equivalent phonemes in languages such as Thai and Lao and the lack of distinction between র [ɹ] and ড় ...

  5. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    The 3rd article of the Constitution of Bangladesh states Bengali to be the sole official language of Bangladesh. [12] The Bengali Language Implementation Act, 1987, made it mandatory to use Bengali in all records and correspondences, laws, proceedings of court and other legal actions in all courts, government or semi-government offices, and ...

  6. Eastern Bengali - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Bengali, [1] Baṅgālī (Bengali: বঙ্গালী, romanized: bôṅgalī) [2] or Vaṅga (Bengali: বঙ্গ, romanized: bôṅgô) [3] is a nonstandard dialect cluster of Bengali spoken in most of Bangladesh and Tripura, thus covering majority of the land of Bengal and surrounding areas.

  7. History of Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, Gaudi. [3] Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider Old Bengali to be intelligible to a certain extent, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old ...

  8. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.

  9. Sylhetis - Wikipedia

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    The Sylheti language, which some consider as a dialect of Bengali, [19] while many linguists consider it as a distinct language, [20] is central to Sylheti identity. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Its unique phonetic qualities and vocabulary often make it unintelligible to standard Bengali speakers, which contributes to a sense of separateness among Sylhetis.