The Bengali script evolved from the Kamarupi script, which belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts.
The Bengali script is however less blocky and presents a more sinuous shape. It is recognizable, as are other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together which is known as মাত্রা matra. It is written from left to right and lacks distinct letter cases. its vowel graphemes are mainly realized not as independent letters, but as diacritics attached to its consonant letters. Contentsįrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali script is an abugida, i.e. Historically, the script has also been used to write Sanskrit in the region of Bengal. The script is somewhat similar to Assamese with minor variations, and is the basis for the other writing systems like Meithei and Bishnupriya Manipuri. The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet ( Bengali: বাংলা লিপি Bangla lipi) is the writing system for the Bengali language and is the 6th most widely used writing system in the world due to its population.
