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Fractions. A book list from 1908, with prices in rupees and anna. The price at top left is ২৷৷৹ (2½ rupees), top right ৸৹ (15 annas). The Bengali-Assamese script has a separate set of digits for base-16 fractions: This system was the norm for pricing before decimalization of the currency: [citation needed] ২৲ (₹2 ...
Bengali is the second most spoken and fourth fastest growing language in India, following Hindi in the first place, Kashmiri in the second place, and Meitei (Manipuri), along with Gujarati, in the third place, according to the 2011 census of India. [ 18 ] Bengali has developed over more than 1,400 years.
In modern Bengali, the most common sibilant varies between / ʃ ~ ɕ / – originally represented by শ, but today, স and ষ in words are often pronounced as / ɕ ~ ʃ /. The other sibilant in Bengali is / s /, originally represented by স, but today, শ and ষ, in words, can sometimes be pronounced as / s /.
The Bengali Wikipedia now has 158,302 articles on various topics with 1,116 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]
The Indian numbering system is used in the Indian subcontinent (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) to express large numbers.The terms lakh or 1,00,000 (one hundred thousand, written as 100,000 in Pakistan, and outside the Indian subcontinent) and crore or 1,00,00,000 [1] (ten million, written as 10,000,000 outside the subcontinent) are the most commonly used terms ...
t. e. The Bengali language movement[a] was a political movement in former East Bengal [b] in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co- lingua franca of the then- Dominion of Pakistan to allow its use in government affairs, the continuation of its use as a medium of education, its use in media, currency and stamps, and to ...
In standard Bengali, stress is predominantly initial. Bengali words are virtually all trochaic; the primary stress falls on the initial syllable of the word, while secondary stress often falls on all odd-numbered syllables thereafter, giving strings such as সহযোগিতা sahayogitā [ˈʃɔhoˌdʒoɡiˌta] ('cooperation'). The first ...
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 ...