Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Indo-Aryan language with approx. 150 million speakers in India and Bangladesh.
Characteristics: relatively simply noun morphology (loss of gender, four cases), rich verb morphology. Subject-verb agreement in person and status (polite, neutral, disparaging). Word order SOV.
References
Bender, E. and T.Riccardi, Jr. 1978. An advanced course in Bengali. Philadelphia, PA.
Chatterji, S.K. 1926. The origin and development of the Bengali language, 3 vols. Calcutta.
(Repr. London.)
Hilali, M.R. 1990. Learning Bengali. London.
Ray, P.S. and L.Ray. 1966. Bengali language handbook. Washington, DC.
Sen, D.C. 1986. History of Bengali language and literature. London.
Dictionary
Biswas, S. 1987–8. Samsad Bengali-English/ English-Bengali dictionary, 2 vols, 10th/5th edn. Calcutta.
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