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    Bengali Vs English Language

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    Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, with over 200 million native speakers worldwide. It evolved from Sanskrit and other ancient languages, and absorbed many foreign words over centuries of influences from Europeans, Mughals, Arabs, and Persians. The first written Bengali grammars were produced by Portuguese and British grammarians in the 18th century. Key structural differences between Bengali and English include Bengali following a subject-object-verb sentence structure and lacking auxiliary verbs, with prepositions placed after nouns.

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    Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, with over 200 million native speakers worldwide. It evolved from Sanskrit and other ancient languages, and absorbed many foreign words over centuries of influences from Europeans, Mughals, Arabs, and Persians. The first written Bengali grammars were produced by Portuguese and British grammarians in the 18th century. Key structural differences between Bengali and English include Bengali following a subject-object-verb sentence structure and lacking auxiliary verbs, with prepositions placed after nouns.

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    Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, with over 200 million native speakers worldwide. It evolved from Sanskrit and other ancient languages, and absorbed many foreign words over centuries of influences from Europeans, Mughals, Arabs, and Persians. The first written Bengali grammars were produced by Portuguese and British grammarians in the 18th century. Key structural differences between Bengali and English include Bengali following a subject-object-verb sentence structure and lacking auxiliary verbs, with prepositions placed after nouns.

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    Bengali Vs English Language

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    Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, with over 200 million native speakers worldwide. It evolved from Sanskrit and other ancient languages, and absorbed many foreign words over centuries of influences from Europeans, Mughals, Arabs, and Persians. The first written Bengali grammars were produced by Portuguese and British grammarians in the 18th century. Key structural differences between Bengali and English include Bengali following a subject-object-verb sentence structure and lacking auxiliary verbs, with prepositions placed after nouns.

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    Bengali, also called Bangla, is the official language of Bangladesh, and the Indian States of West Bengal and Tripura. There are over 200 million native speakers of this language across the world and it has the pride of place as the 5th most spoken language in the world (after Mandarin, Spanish, English and Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu). Bengali is the second most commonly spoken language in India (after Hindi). Bengali a language of ancient origin Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of South Asia that evolved as a successor to Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit. Bengali is the English word for the name of the language as well as for its speakers; in Bengali, the language itself is called Bangla . Along with other Eastern IndoAryan languages, Bengali evolved circa 10001200 CE from eastern Middle Indo-Aryan dialects such as the Magadhi Prakritand Pali, With a rich literary tradition arising from the Bengali Renaissance, Bengali binds together a culturally diverse region and is an important contributor to Bengali nationalism. In former East Bengal (today Bangladesh), the strong linguistic consciousness led to the Bengali Language Movement, during which on 21 February 1952, several people were killed during protests to gain its recognition as a state language of the then Dominion of Pakistan and to maintain its writing in the Bengali script. The day has since been observed as Language Movement Day in Bangladesh, and was proclaimed the International Mother Language Day by UNESCO on 17 November 1999. Bengali a cocktail of many languages Due to centuries of powerful influences from Europeans, Mughals, Arabs, Persians, and East Asians, Bengali has absorbed countless words from foreign languages, often totally integrating these borrowings into the core vocabulary. After centuries of invasions from Persia and the Middle East, numerous Turkish, Arabic, and Persian words were absorbed and fully integrated into the lexicon. Later, European colonialism brought words from Portuguese, French, Dutch, and most significantly English. Bengali Grammar written by Portugese & English! Bengali existed as a collection of thousands of dialects till the 18th century and did not have a well-documented grammar. Manoel da Assumpcam, a Portuguese missionary, wrote the first written Bengali grammar, Vocabolario em idioma Bengalla, e Portuguez dividido em duas partes.

    Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, a British grammarian, is credited as being the first to write a Bengali grammar using Bengali texts and letters for illustration: A Grammar of the Bengal Language (1778).

    Basic Structural Difference between Bengali and English Language The basic sentence pattern The basic sentence pattern in English is subject +verb + object (SVO), whereas in Bengali it issubject+ object + verb (SOV). Example: English: I (S) eat (V) rice (O). Bengali: (S) (O) (V). Auxiliary verb Auxiliary verb is absent in Bengali language. Example: English: I (Pronoun) am (Auxiliary verb) reading (Main verb) a (Article) book (Noun). Bengali: (Pronoun) (Article) (Noun) (Main verb). Preposition Preposition is a word placed before a noun orpronoun or a noun-equivalent to show its relation toany other word of the sentence. In Bengali language, bibhakti will be place after noun or pronoun or a noun-equivalent. Example: English: The man sat on the chair. Bengali: . Here ' (te)' is bibhakti

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