Daffodil International University

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => English => Bangla Literature => Topic started by: farahdina on May 04, 2019, 01:47:30 PM

Title: Some Interesting Facts about Bengali Language
Post by: farahdina on May 04, 2019, 01:47:30 PM
Some Interesting Facts about Bengali Language
[/b]

Bengali is often known as the second most beautiful language in the world after French because of its charm and touch of love and sophistication.  Once a Bengali poet said that – ‘A mori Bangla bhasa, moder garab moder asha’ which roughly translates to – ‘Oh! How I praise Bengali language, it is our pride, it is our only hope’. Bengali is the seventh most spoken native language in the world, with over 210 million speakers. Here are some interesting facts about Bengali Language;

1)   Official Status of Bengali Language
Bengali is the national language of Bangladesh and one of the 23 official languages in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and in Barak Valley of Assam. It is also a major language in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It is also an official language of Sierra Leone. In 2002, Bengali was named an honorary official language of Sierra Leone in honor of the 5300 Bangladeshi troops who were part of the Sierra Leone Peacekeeping Force.

2)   Bengali Grammar

The Bengali grammar is gender free! That’s good news for English speakers. Although there are no gendered nouns in Bengali, but there is a lot of subtle inflection in spoken Bengali which can take some time to master. Verbs are especially difficult because they are heavily inflected, and the wrong inflection changes their case and your overall meaning. It can either turn into a hilarious situation or a horrifying one.

3)   National Anthem of India is written in Bengali

Jana Gana Mana, the National Anthem of India is written in Bengali by Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Gitanjali, which was written in Bengali and has probably written the best poems and songs in Bengal so far.

4)   Some English words are borrowed from Bengali
Various words are shared with lots of languages. There are some common English words that we use too often, but we don’t know where they have been derived from. Two such words are Bungalow and jute that are actually derived from Bengali.


5)   Bengali Words of different origins

Bengali has as many as 100,000 separate words, of which 50,000 are its own, 21,100 are originated from Sanskrit, the mother of all languages and the remainder loanwords from Austro-Asiatic and other foreign languages. Because of centuries of contact with Europeans, Turkic peoples, and Persians, the Bengali language has absorbed numerous words from foreign languages. The most common borrowings from foreign languages come from three different kinds of contact. After close contact with several indigenous Austro-Asiatic languages and later the Mughal invasion whose court language was Persian, numerous Chagatai, Arabic, and Persian words were absorbed into the lexicon.

Source: https://ohfact.com/interesting-facts-about-bengali-language/
Title: Re: Some Interesting Facts about Bengali Language
Post by: Rumu on May 08, 2019, 01:18:11 PM
good post
Title: Re: Some Interesting Facts about Bengali Language
Post by: Afroza Akhter Tina on May 15, 2019, 10:41:02 AM
Thanks for sharing!


Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU
Title: Re: Some Interesting Facts about Bengali Language
Post by: Umme Atia Siddiqua on March 15, 2020, 10:29:32 AM
Thanks for sharing.