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The United States Congress was created in Article I of the Constitution, which laid out the limitations and powers of Congress.Article I grants Congress legislative power, lists the enumerated powers and allows Congress to make laws that are necessary and proper to carry out the enumerated powers.
Mahbubul Alam (Bengali: মাহ্বুব-উল আলম, pronounced [maɦbubul alɔm]; 1 May 1898 – 7 August 1981) was a Bangladeshi writer, journalist, historian, soldier, and civil servant. [1] He won Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1965 and Ekushey Padak in 1978. [2] [3]
The first Bangla books to be printed were those written by Christian missionaries. Dom Antonio's Brahmin-Roman-Catholic Sambad, for example, was the first Bangla book to be printed towards the end of the 17th century. Bangla writing was further developed as Bengali scholars wrote textbooks for Fort William College. Although these works had ...
Abdul Gaffar Choudhury (12 December 1934 – 19 May 2022) [1] was a Bangladeshi-born British writer, journalist, columnist, political analyst and poet. He wrote the lyrics to "Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano", a widely celebrated song commemorating the Bengali Language Movement.
The writing of each article was overseen by an expert editor. [4] [5] Banglapedia was not designed as a general encyclopedia. Its purpose is to provide a standard desk reference for Bangladeshis, as well as for people interested in Bangladesh, Bengali-speaking people, and related political, cultural and geographical contexts. [7]
In non-rarhi varieties of Bengali, that is to say northern and eastern dialects, "a" is substituted for "e" in second-person familiar forms; thus tumi bolla, khulla, khella etc. which is the original inflection, the “e” in contrast is a vowel-harmonised variant of the former, having gone through a process called abhisruti.
Bengali punctuation marks, apart from the downstroke দাড়ি dari (।), the Bengali equivalent of a full stop, have been adopted from western scripts and their usage is similar: Commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, etc. are the same as in English. Capital letters are absent in the Bengali script so proper names are unmarked.
Bengali exhibits diglossia, though some scholars have proposed triglossia or even n-glossia or heteroglossia between the written and spoken forms of the language. [41] Two styles of writing have emerged, involving somewhat different vocabularies and syntax: [78] [80]