Bengali language: Difference between revisions

[[Bengali-Assamese script]] is an [[abugida]], a script with letters for consonants, diacritics for vowels, and in which an [[inherent vowel]] (অ ''ô'') is assumed for consonants if no vowel is marked.<ref name="it46">{{cite web | url=http://www.it46.se/docs/courses/ICT4D_localization_software_primer_it46_v1.5.pdf | author=Escudero Pascual Alberto | title=Writing Systems/ Scripts | date=23 October 2005 | access-date=20 November 2006 | work=Primer to Localization of Software | publisher=it46.se | archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090319013436/http://www.it46.se/docs/courses/ICT4D_localization_software_primer_it46_v1.5.pdf | archive-date=19 March 2009 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref> The [[Bengali alphabet]] is used throughout Bangladesh and eastern India (Assam, West Bengal, Tripura). The Bengali alphabet is believed to have evolved from a modified [[Brahmic scripts|Brahmic script]] around 1000 CE (or 10th–11th century).<ref name="akhor">[http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bangalah Bangalah] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705234223/http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bangalah |date=5 July 2015 }} in {{Harvnb|Asiatic Society of Bangladesh|2003}}</ref> Note that despite Bangladesh being majority Muslim, it uses the Bengali alphabet rather than an [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic-based one]] like the [[Shahmukhi script]] used in Pakistan. However, throughout history there have been instances of the Bengali language being written in [[Perso-Arabic]]. The use of the [[Sylheti Nagari]] script also emerged in the [[Sylhet region]] of the Bengal.<ref name="bpedia" />