
The Bengali script has a total of 9 vowel graphemes, each of which is called a স্বরবর্ণ swôrôbôrnô "vowel letter". Vowels & Consonant are used as alphabet and also diacritical marks. The Bengali script can be divided into vowels and vowel diacritics/marks, consonants and consonant conjuncts, diacritical and other symbols, digits, and punctuation marks. The Bengali writing system is however less blocky and presents a more sinuous shape than the Devanagari script. It is recognisable, as are other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line known as matra ( মাত্রা) running along the tops of the letters that links them together. Bengali writing system is written from left to right and use a single letter case, which make it a monocameral script, as opposed to bicameral ones like Latin alphabet. its vowel graphemes are mainly realised not as independent letters, but as diacritics modifying the vowel inherent in the base letter they are added to. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.įrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali writing system is an abugida, i.e. For the distinction between, / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The Semitic origin of the Brahmic scripts is not universally agreed upon.
