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Bengali (বাংলা Bangla) is one of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, which evolved from Magadhi Prakrit, native to the eastern Indian subcontinent. [1] The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit origin, with significant ancient borrowings from the older substrate language (s) of the region.
Kokborok is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Kokborok (or Tripuri) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh. [3] Its name comes from kok meaning "verbal" or "language" and borok meaning "people" or "human", [citation needed] It is one of the ...
Comparison of English dictionaries. This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English. The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other ...
Bangladesh. India. The Bengali language is native to the region of Bengal, which comprises the present-day nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Geographical distribution of the Bengali language in the world. Main language. Regional language. Overseas population of more than a million.
Pros and cons, derived from the Latin words "pro" (for) and "contra" (against), may refer to: Pros and Cons (TV series), a television series that aired from 1991 to 1992. Pros & Cons, a 1999 film starring Larry Miller and Tommy Davidson. Pros & Cons (comic strip), a comic strip by Kieran Meehan. "Pros and Cons", an episode of Garfield and Friends.
Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia. [1] It is available in print, CD-ROM format and online, [2] in both Bengali and English. [3] The print version comprises fourteen 500-page volumes. The first edition was published in January 2003 in ten volumes by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
The first great English translation was the Wycliffe Bible (c. 1382), which showed the weaknesses of an underdeveloped English prose. Only at the end of the 15th century did the great age of English prose translation begin with Thomas Malory 's Le Morte d'Arthur —an adaptation of Arthurian romances so free that it can, in fact, hardly be ...
English and other foreign (বিদেশী bideshi) borrowings add even more cluster types into the Bengali inventory, further increasing the syllable capacity, [citation needed] as commonly-used loanwords such as ট্রেন ṭren ('train') and গ্লাস glash ('glass') are now included in leading Bengali dictionaries.