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.

All labels observed (6)

Label Occurrences
Bengali script canonical 14
Bengali–Assamese script 12
Bengali-Assamese script 9

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (72)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Brahmic script
abugida
writing system
derivedFrom Brahmi script
Gupta script
Siddham script
direction left-to-right
hasAlternateName Bangla script
linked to: Bengali script

Eastern Nagari script
hasCharacter



























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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (45)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sanskrit writingSystem Bengali script
Brahmi script hasDescendant Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Indo-Iranian languages writingSystemsInclude Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Bengali script hasAlternateName Bangla script
linked to: Bengali script
Gujarati script relatedTo Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Dasgupta writingSystem Bengali script
Assamese people writingSystem Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Karbi people script Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Eastern Nagari script alsoKnownAs Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Dimasa people usesScript Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Indians writingSystem Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Odia script relatedTo Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Brahmic scripts influenced Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Tirhuta script relatedTo Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Bengali people usesWritingSystem Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Nabaneeta writingSystem Bengali script
Languages of India writingSystem Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Meitei language hasWritingSystem Bengali script
Meitei language writingSystemUsedHistorically Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Tani languages writingSystem Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Kuki-Chin languages hasWritingSystem Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Das Gupta hasWritingSystem Bengali script
Bengali diaspora hasWritingSystem Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Sylheti language hasWritingSystem Bengali script
Chakma language writingSystem Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Gupta script developedInto Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Gupta script influenced Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Government of Assam usesScriptOnEmblem Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Brahmi isAncestorOf Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Bengali calendar scriptUsed Bengali script
Boro language formerWritingSystem Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Mishing language script Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Mishing language writingSystem Assamese alphabet
linked to: Bengali script
Tollywood usesScript Bengali script
Tiwa people usesScript Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Eastern Neo-Brahmi script relatedTo Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Mundari hasWritingSystem Bengali script
Kokborok hasWritingSystem Bengali script
Khasi language earlierScriptsUsed Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Reang language writingSystem Bengali-Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Lakshmipur District script Bengali script
Garo people writingSystem Bengali–Assamese script
linked to: Bengali script
Saha hasScript Bengali script
Barindra writingSystem Bengali script