Bengali is the state language of West Bengal and Bangladesh. It uses Bengali Script.
Bangla is written in the Bangla alphasyllabary (also called syllabic alphabet or abugida), a Brahmic script similar to the Devanagari alphasyllabary used for Hindi, Sanskrit, and many other Indic languages. The Bangla alphasyllabary is a cursive script with 12 vowel characters and 52 consonant characters. As in all alphasyllabaries, every consonant in the Bangla script has an inherent embedded vowel sound. To suppress the embedded vowel sound, an extra diacritic must be added below the consonant. Vowels can be written as independent letters, or by writing a variety of diacritics above, below, before, after, or around the consonant they belong to. Consonant clusters are typically indicated by ligating two or more symbols. The phonemic inventory of Bangla consists of 29 consonants and 14 vowels, including the seven nasalized vowels.
This same script, with a few small modifications, is also used for writing Assamese. Other related languages in the region also make use of the Bangla alphabet. Meithei (Manipuri), a Sino-Tibetan language used in the Indian state of Manipur, was written in the Bangla alphasyllabary for centuries, until the 1980s, when Meetei Mayek (the Meithei alphasyllabary) returned to daily usage. For centuries, the Sylheti language used a different script, based on the Devanagari alphasyllabary. This script, called Sylheti Nagori, has now fallen out of use, as most speakers of Sylheti have adopted the Bangla script.
Decimal | Hex | Name | |
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ঁ | 2433 | 0981 | Bengali Sign CANDRABINDU |
ং | 2434 | 0982 | Bengali Sign ANUSVARA |
ঃ | 2435 | 0983 | Bengali Sign VISARGA |
অ | 2437 | 0985 | Bengali Letter A |
আ | 2438 | 0986 | Bengali Letter AA |
ই | 2439 | 0987 | Bengali Letter I |
ঈ | 2440 | 0988 | Bengali Letter II |
উ | 2441 | 0989 | Bengali Letter U |
ঊ | 2442 | 098A | Bengali Letter UU |
ঋ | 2443 | 098B | Bengali Letter VOCALIC R |
ঌ | 2444 | 098C | Bengali Letter VOCALIC L |
এ | 2447 | 098F | Bengali Letter E |
ঐ | 2448 | 0990 | Bengali Letter AI |
ও | 2451 | 0993 | Bengali Letter O |
ঔ | 2452 | 0994 | Bengali Letter AU |
ক | 2453 | 0995 | Bengali Letter KA |
খ | 2454 | 0996 | Bengali Letter KHA |
গ | 2455 | 0997 | Bengali Letter GA |
ঘ | 2456 | 0998 | Bengali Letter GHA |
ঙ | 2457 | 0999 | Bengali Letter NGA |
চ | 2458 | 099A | Bengali Letter CA |
ছ | 2459 | 099B | Bengali Letter CHA |
জ | 2460 | 099C | Bengali Letter JA |
ঝ | 2461 | 099D | Bengali Letter JHA |
ঞ | 2462 | 099E | Bengali Letter NYA |
ট | 2463 | 099F | Bengali Letter TTA |
ঠ | 2464 | 09A0 | Bengali Letter TTHA |
ড | 2465 | 09A1 | Bengali Letter DDA |
ঢ | 2466 | 09A2 | Bengali Letter DDHA |
ণ | 2467 | 09A3 | Bengali Letter NNA |
ত | 2468 | 09A4 | Bengali Letter TA |
থ | 2469 | 09A5 | Bengali Letter THA |
দ | 2470 | 09A6 | Bengali Letter DA |
ধ | 2471 | 09A7 | Bengali Letter DHA |
ন | 2472 | 09A8 | Bengali Letter NA |
প | 2474 | 09AA | Bengali Letter PA |
ফ | 2475 | 09AB | Bengali Letter PHA |
ব | 2476 | 09AC | Bengali Letter BA |
ভ | 2477 | 09AD | Bengali Letter BHA |
ম | 2478 | 09AE | Bengali Letter MA |
য | 2479 | 09AF | Bengali Letter YA |
র | 2480 | 09B0 | Bengali Letter RA |
ল | 2482 | 09B2 | Bengali Letter LA |
শ | 2486 | 09B6 | Bengali Letter SHA |
ষ | 2487 | 09B7 | Bengali Letter SSA |
স | 2488 | 09B8 | Bengali Letter SA |
হ | 2489 | 09B9 | Bengali Letter HA |
় | 2492 | 09BC | Bengali Sign NUKTA |
ঽ | 2493 | 09BD | Bengali Sign AVAGRAHA |
া | 2494 | 09BE | Bengali Vowel Sign AA |
ি | 2495 | 09BF | Bengali Vowel Sign I |
ী | 2496 | 09C0 | Bengali Vowel Sign II |
ু | 2497 | 09C1 | Bengali Vowel Sign U |
ূ | 2498 | 09C2 | Bengali Vowel Sign UU |
ৃ | 2499 | 09C3 | Bengali Vowel Sign VOCALIC R |
ৄ | 2500 | 09C4 | Bengali Vowel Sign VOCALIC RR |
ে | 2503 | 09C7 | Bengali Vowel Sign E |
ৈ | 2504 | 09C8 | Bengali Vowel Sign AI |
ো | 2507 | 09CB | Bengali Vowel Sign O |
ৌ | 2508 | 09CC | Bengali Vowel Sign AU |
্ | 2509 | 09CD | Bengali Sign VIRAMA |
ৗ | 2519 | 09D7 | Bengali AU LENGTH MARK |
ড় | 2524 | 09DC | Bengali Letter RRA |
ঢ় | 2525 | 09DD | Bengali Letter RHA |
য় | 2527 | 09DF | Bengali Letter YYA |
ৠ | 2528 | 09E0 | Bengali Letter VOCALIC RR |
ৡ | 2529 | 09E1 | Bengali Letter VOCALIC LL |
ৢ | 2530 | 09E2 | Bengali Vowel Sign VOCALIC L |
ৣ | 2531 | 09E3 | Bengali Vowel Sign VOCALIC LL |
০ | 2534 | 09E6 | Bengali Digit ZERO |
১ | 2535 | 09E7 | Bengali Digit ONE |
২ | 2536 | 09E8 | Bengali Digit TWO |
৩ | 2537 | 09E9 | Bengali Digit THREE |
৪ | 2538 | 09EA | Bengali Digit FOUR |
৫ | 2539 | 09EB | Bengali Digit FIVE |
৬ | 2540 | 09EC | Bengali Digit SIX |
৭ | 2541 | 09ED | Bengali Digit SEVEN |
৮ | 2542 | 09EE | Bengali Digit EIGHT |
৯ | 2543 | 09EF | Bengali Digit NINE |
ৰ | 2544 | 09F0 | Bengali Letter RA WITH MIDDLE DIAGONAL |
ৱ | 2545 | 09F1 | Bengali Letter RA WITH LOWER DIAGONAL |
৲ | 2546 | 09F2 | Bengali Rupee MARK |
৳ | 2547 | 09F3 | Bengali Rupee Sign |
৴ | 2548 | 09F4 | Bengali Currency NUMERATOR ONE |
৵ | 2549 | 09F5 | Bengali Currency NUMERATOR TWO |
৶ | 2550 | 09F6 | Bengali Currency NUMERATOR THREE |
৷ | 2551 | 09F7 | Bengali Currency NUMERATOR FOUR |
৸ | 2552 | 09F8 | Bengali Currency NUMERATOR ONE LESS THAN THE DENOMINATOR |
৹ | 2553 | 09F9 | Bengali Currency DENOMINATOR SIXTEEN |
৺ | 2554 | 09FA | Bengali ISSHAR |