Bengali script
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Bengali script is an abugida used across eastern South Asia to write languages such as Bengali and Assamese, derived from the ancient Brahmi script.
Aliases (4)
Statements (72)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Brahmic script
→
abugida → writing system → |
| derivedFrom |
Brahmi script
→
Gupta script → Siddham script → |
| direction |
left-to-right
→
|
| hasAlternateName |
Bangla script
→
Eastern Nagari script → |
| hasCharacter |
ঁ
→
ং → ঃ → অ → আ → ই → উ → এ → ও → ক → খ → গ → চ → জ → ট → ড → ত → দ → প → ব → ম → য → র → ল → শ → ষ → স → হ → ্ → |
| hasDiacritics |
vowel signs
→
|
| hasFeature |
conjunct consonant ligatures
→
inherent vowel /ɔ/ → no letter case distinction → virama sign called hôsônto (্) → vowel diacritics placed above, below, before, after consonants → |
| hasISO15924Code |
Beng
→
|
| hasUnicodeBlock |
Bengali (U+0980–U+09FF)
→
|
| relatedTo |
Devanagari script
→
Odia script → Tirhuta script → |
| scriptFamily |
Brahmic scripts
→
|
| timePeriod |
developed around 11th century CE
→
|
| usedBy |
Assamese people
→
Bengali people → |
| usedFor |
Assamese language
→
Bengali language → Bishnupriya Manipuri language → Chakma language → Karbi language → Meitei language → Rohingya language → Sylheti language → |
| usedIn |
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
→
Assam → Bangladesh → India → Jharkhand → Manipur → Meghalaya → Mizoram → Tripura → West Bengal → |
| writingSystemType |
abugida
→
|
Referenced by (14)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Assamese people
("Assamese script")
→
Dasgupta → Indians ("Bengali–Assamese script") → Sanskrit → |
writingSystem |
|
Gujarati script
("Bengali-Assamese script")
→
Odia script ("Bengali–Assamese script") → Tirhuta script ("Bengali–Assamese script") → |
relatedTo |
|
Eastern Nagari script
("Bengali–Assamese script")
→
|
alsoKnownAs |
|
Bengali script
("Bangla script")
→
|
hasAlternateName |
|
Brahmi script
("Bengali–Assamese script")
→
|
hasDescendant |
|
Brahmic scripts
("Bengali–Assamese script")
→
|
influenced |
|
Karbi people
("Assamese script")
→
|
script |
|
Dimasa people
("Assamese script")
→
|
usesScript |
|
Indo-Iranian languages
("Bengali-Assamese script")
→
|
writingSystemsInclude |