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  2. Bengali Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali Wikipedia now has 158,131 articles on various topics with 1,205 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]

  3. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    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. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of ...

  4. Bengali vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Bengali dialects - Wikipedia

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    Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sukumar Sen classified Bengali dialects in five classes by their phonology and pronunciation.They are: [1] [additional citation(s) needed] 1. Bangali dialect: Bangali dialect is the most widely spoken dialect of Bengali language.

  6. Banglapedia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Bangla Academy - Wikipedia

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    The Bangla Academy (Bengali: বাংলা একাডেমি, pronounced [baŋla ækaɖemi]) is the official regulatory body of the Bengali language in Bangladesh.It is an autonomous institution funded by the Government of Bangladesh that fosters the Bengali language, literature and culture, works to develop and implement national language policy and conducts original research in Bengali.

  8. Bengali phonology - Wikipedia

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    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 syllable carries the greatest stress, with the third ...

  9. Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi - Wikipedia

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    banglaacademy.org.in. The Pashchimbanga Bangla Akademi (Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ বাংলা আকাদেমি, pronounced [pɔʃtʃimbɔŋɡo baŋla akad̪emi], transl. West Bengal Bengali Academy) is the official regulatory body of the Bengali language in India. It was founded on 20 May 1986 in Kolkata to act as the ...