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Bengali literature; By category Bengali language: Bengali language authors; Chronological list – Alphabetic List: Bengali writers; Writers – Novelists – Poets: Forms; Novel – Poetry – Science Fiction: Institutions and awards; Literary Institutions Literary Prizes: Related Portals Literature Portal. India Portal. Bangladesh Portal
Charyapada manuscript preserved in the library of Rajshahi College.. The first works in Bengali appeared between 10th and 12th centuries C.E. [2] It is generally known as the Charyapada and are 47 mystic hymns composed by various Buddhist monks, namely; Luipada, Kanhapada, Kukkuripada, Chatilpada, Bhusukupada, Kamlipada, Dhendhanpada, Shantipada and Shabarapada amongst others.
2007 – Bachchan Singh [48] – Mahabharat ki Katha (treatise, Hindi tr. from Buddhadeb Basu) 2009 – Jatindra Kumar Bargohain [ 49 ] – Lokayata Darshan (philosophy, Assamese tr. from Devi Prasad Chattopadhyay )
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 is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [10] [11] [12] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It is the second-most widely spoken language in India .
The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, Gaudi. [4] 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 ...
'Chaste language') or Sanskritised Bengali was a historical literary register of the Bengali language most prominently used in the 19th to 20th centuries during the Bengali Renaissance. Sadhu bhasha was used only in writing, unlike Cholito bhasha , the colloquial form of the language, which was used in both writing and speaking.