উ hrôssho u has the diacritic ু hrosshukar: কু ku.ঈ dirgho i has the diacritic ী dirghikar: কী ki.ই hrôssho i has the diacritic ি hrosshikar: কি ki.আ shôre a has the diacritic া akar: কা ka.
অ has no diacritic because it’s the inherent vowel all consonants have this vowel by default. I’ll be using the letter ক kô to demonstrate the diacritics.
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Each vowel has a diacritic called by the letter’s name plus the suffix -kar. Now that you know some consonants, we’re gonna put in some vowels! Refer back to the first alphabet lesson for information about each vowel. At the end of a word, the inherent vowel is usually dropped, though. This letter can never occur at the beginning of a word.Īs I said before, consonants standing alone have the inherent vowel ô. ঙ: This letter is called ũô, and it makes the sound ng, like the ng in si ngi ng. The gh sound is like g, but with more air behind it. ঘ: This letter is ghô, and it’s the aspirated form of gô. গ: The third letter is gô, which represents the sound g.
It’s pronounced kh like the c in cat, with aspiration. খ: This is khô, the aspirated form of kô. ক: The first consonant is called kô, and makes the sound k, like the ck in ba ck, without aspiration They are all velar consonants, meaning that they’re pronounced with the back of your tongue touching your soft palate. If a consonant is aspirated, the paper/tissue should move because of the extra air otherwise, it shouldn’t.Ĭollectively, the first five consonants are called ক-বর্গ kô-bôrgo, or K-series. A quick test to see if you’re aspirating a consonant is by putting a piece of paper or a tissue in front of your mouth when you speak. Basically, aspirated consonants are pronounced with an extra puff of air, while unaspirated consonants aren’t. This vowel is like the aw in law or the o in lot.Īdditionally, the plosives can come in two forms: unaspirated and aspirated. There are 39 consonant letters in total, but we’ll only go over the first five in this lesson.īengali consonant letters all have an inherent vowel, which means that if a consonant letter stands by itself without a vowel diacritic, it has the vowel ô come after it. Before we do that, however, we need to learn some consonants!Ĭonsonants are called ব্য়ঞ্জনবর্ণ Bênjonbôrno. In this lesson, we’re going to learn the diacritics that go with each vowel. Bengali is an abugida, which means that vowel letters have special forms called diacritics that attach to the consonants they come after. Primary (134), Levenshulme High School (106), Stanley Grove Primary Academy (100), St John’s C.E.Hey everyone! In the first writing lesson, we learned about the vowel letters, which can only be used at the beginning of a word or after other vowels. Oldham (8,501), Tameside (2,116), Rochdale (2,006)įirst language of pupils in Manchester schools (2015)ĭistribution in City of Manchester schools (2015)īirchfields Primary (188), St Agnes C.E. Longsight (939), Rusholme (626), Ardwick (265), Burnage (161), Gorton South (153)ĭistribution in Greater Manchester (Census 2011) Proficiency in English, self-reported in City of Manchester (Census 2011)*Ĭan speak English very well (33%), Can speak English well (35%), Cannot speak English well (27%), Cannot speak English (5%)ĭistribution in City of Manchester (Census 2011) Number of persons identifying as “main language” in City of Manchester as percentage of total in England & Wales (Census 2011) Number of persons identifying as “main language” in Greater Manchester as percentage of total in England & Wales (Census 2011) Number of persons identifying as “main language” in City of Manchester (Census (Census 2011) Number of persons identifying as “main language” in Greater Manchester (Census 2011) Number of persons identifying as “main language” in England & Wales (Census 2011) Official language of Bangladesh, regional language in India Words are inflected the verb appears at the end of the sentence location expressions (‘for’, ‘to’) follow the noun ergative language Retroflex sounds (articulated by moving the tongue towards the back of the hard palate) aspirate sounds (require bursts of breath for pronunciation) many diphthongs (combining two vowels in a single syllable) and back vowels (tongue is located very far back in the mouth) Indo-European Indo-Iranian Eastern Indo-Aryan Oriya-Gauda-Kamrupa Gauda-Banga