The Bengali script has a total of 9 vowel graphemes, each of which is called a স্বরবর্ণ swôrôbôrnô 'vowel letter'. Vowels and consonants are used as letters and also as diacritical marks. The Bengali script can be divided into vowels and vowel diacritics, consonants and Conjunct consonants, diacritical and other symbols, digits and punctuation marks. The Bengali writing system is less blocky, however, and presents a more sinuous shape than the Devanagari script. It is recognisable, as are some other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line known as a mātrā ( মাত্রা) running along the tops of the letters that links them together. It is written from left to right and uses a single letter case, which makes it a unicameral script, as opposed to a bicameral one like the Latin script. 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. įrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali writing system is an abugida, i.e. It is used as the official script of Bengali language in Bangladesh and West Bengal as well as Meitei language in Manipur (officially termed as ' Manipuri language'), two of the official languages of India. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. It is one of the most widely adopted writing systems in the world (used by over 265 million people). The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet ( Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, Bangla bôrṇômala, Meitei: বেঙ্গলি ময়েক, romanized: Bengali Mayek ) is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language based on the Bengali-Assamese script, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal.

Bengali alphabet