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The document provides information on the Bengali alphabet including vowels, diphthongs, consonants, and diacritical marks. It lists the vowel and consonant letters, organizes the consonants into groups, and provides notes on pronunciation rules and transliteration of certain letters.

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Bengali

The document provides information on the Bengali alphabet including vowels, diphthongs, consonants, and diacritical marks. It lists the vowel and consonant letters, organizes the consonants into groups, and provides notes on pronunciation rules and transliteration of certain letters.

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Bengali

Vowels and Diphthongs (see Note 1)

অ a ৠ
আ ā ঌ
ই I এ e
ঈ ī ঐ ai
উ u ও o
ঊ ū ঔ au
ঋ

Consonants (see Note 2)

Gutturals Palatals Cerebrals Dentals

ক ka চ ca ট ṭa ত ta
খ kha ছ cha ঠ ṭha ৎ t
গ ga জ ja ড ḍa থ tha
ঘ gha ঝ jha ড় ṛa দ da
ঙ ṅa ঞ ña ঢ ḍha ধ dha
ঢ় ṛha ন na
ণ ṇa

Labials Semivowels Sibilants Aspirate

প pa য ya শ śa হ ha
ফ pha য় ẏa ষ sha
ব ba (see Note 3) র ra স sa
ভ bha ল la
ম ma ব ba (see Note 3)

Candrabindu (anunāsika)
Anusvāra Bisarga Abagraha (see Note 5)
(see Note 4)
ং ṃ ঃ ḥ ঁ n̐, m̐ ऽ ’(apostrophe)

Notes

1. Only the vowel forms that appear at the beginning of a syllable are listed; the forms used for
vowels following a consonant can be found in grammars; no distinction between the two is
made in transliteration.
2. The vowel a is implicit after all consonants and consonant clusters and is supplied in
transliteration, with the following exceptions:
a) when another vowel is indicated by its appropriate sign; and
b) when the absence of any vowel is indicated by the subscript symbol ( ্ ) called hasanta
or birāma.

3. ব is used both as a labial and as a semivowel. When it occurs as the second or subsequent
consonant of a consonant cluster, it is transliterated va. When ব is doubled, it is transliterated
bba.

4. Candrabindu before guttural, palatal, cerebral, and dental occlusives is transliterated n̐.
Before labials, sibilants, semivowels, the aspirate, vowels, and in final position it is
transliterated m̐.

5. When doubled, abagraha is transliterated by two apostrophes ( ’’ ).

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