
You saw how a letter is written and might be pronounced, but there is nothing better than hearing the sound of the letters in a video or audio. ষ Sound of ‘sh’ when the tongue touches the roots of the teeth ফ Sound of ‘f’ if pronounced with closed lips Bengali alphabet, pronunciation and language Bengali is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in mainly Bangladesh and northern India. ধ sound produced by coupling soft ‘d’ and ‘h’= ‘dh’

ণ Nasal sound when the tongue touches a bit away from teeth

ঞ Just like ‘gn’ of gnome with a slight up movement of tongue ঝ This is produced using the naval sounds while the tongue touches the upper part of mouth cavity The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Bengali language.īelow is a table showing the Bengali alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word. Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. The current printed form of Bengali alphabet first appeared in 1778 when Charles Wilkins developed printing in Bengali. It is also closely related to the Devanagari alphabet, from which it started to diverge in the 11th Century AD.

Though Bangla has some long vowel sounds in pronunciation (i.e. The Bengali alphabet ( - Bangla lipi) is derived from the Brahmi alphabet. Learning the Bengali alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. TRANSLITERATION OF BANGLA WORDS: The Use of English Alphabet.
