The Bangla script (āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻž āĻ˛āĻŋāĻĒāĻŋ) is used to write the Bengali language, one of the most spoken languages in the worldâused by over 250 million people across Bangladesh, India, and Bengali communities worldwide.
It evolved from the Brahmi script around the 11th century and is closely related to other Indic scripts like Assamese and Devanagari. The Bangla script flows from left to right and is composed of a beautiful rounded style, often connected by a horizontal line at the top of the letters called the matra.
The script includes:
Bangla does not use capital letters and has a fairly consistent phonetic structure. While it may look unfamiliar at first, most letters correspond to a single sound, and learners often begin to recognize patterns quickly.
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