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Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines.

Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet.

Since 1836 Assamese has been written with a version of the Bengali alphabet with a few extra letters. The first printed book in Assamese was Atmaram Sarma's translation of the Bible, which published in 1813 by the Serampore English Missionary Press in Calcutta. From the 5th to the 13th century AD, it was written with the Kamarupi or Old Assamese alphabet, which developed from the Gupta script.Īssamese has a long literary tradition, and was used for edicts and other writings of medieval kings. Assamese is closely related to Bengali and Odia.Īssamese was first written with a version of the Brahmi script in 300 BC.

You saw how a letter is written and might be pronounced, but there is nothing better than hearing the sound of the letters in a video or audio.Assamese is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken by about 20 million people in the Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, and also spoken in Bangladesh and Bhutan. ষ Sound of ‘sh’ when the tongue touches the roots of the teeth

ফ Sound of ‘f’ if pronounced with closed lips ধ sound produced by coupling soft ‘d’ and ‘h’= ‘dh’ ণ Nasal sound when the tongue touches a bit away from teeth ঞ Just like ‘gn’ of gnome with a slight up movement of tongue ঝ This is produced using the naval sounds while the tongue touches the upper part of mouth cavity The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Bengali language.īelow is a table showing the Bengali alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word.

Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. Learning the Bengali alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation.