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On the Web
- Samsad Bengali-English Dictionary - Can search using English or Bengali terms. Exact matches or limiting to headwords optional.
- BengalOnline Download - Bilingual site in English and Bengali. Free download of Bengali font and 'Banglawriter' editor for Bengali e-mail.
- Protiva Software - Developers of Lekhok a word processor designed for users of Bengali Language, and Bengali Scripting software for children who would like to learn Bengali with ease.
- Bengali OpenType specification - Microsoft's specifications describing how the Bengali shaping engine works, features for Bengali script and other encoding issues.
- BBC World Service: Bengali - BBC Bengali News and Probaho. Available in Real Audio. Also links to World News and South Asia News in English.
- bangla.ca - Contains information on Bangladesh, Bengali culture, Bengali resources in Canada and some Canadian Links.
- Bengali - Test for Unicode support in Web browsers - Test your Web browser and fonts for the ability to display the Unicode Bengali range of characters. Part of Alan Wood's Unicode Resources.Diagnostic page.
- Garden State Cultural Association - New Jersey (USA) based Bengali organization that organizes various Bengali events including Durga Puja.
- Learn to Read Bengali - Two free online lessons in the Bengali script.
- Virtual Bangladesh: Survival Bengali - Online lessons to learn Bangla or Bengali including online dictionary, phrases and sounds.
Wikipedia Articles
- Bengali novels - Bengali Novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature. Though the first Bengali novel was Alaler Ghorer Dulal, the Bengali novel actually started its journey with Durgeshnondini written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865.
- Bengali grammar - Bengali grammar () is the study of the morphology and syntax of Bengali, an Indo-European language spoken in South Asia. Although Bengali uses a separate alphabet (see Bengali script), a Romanization scheme is used here to suggest the pronunciation.
- Bengali Language Movement - The Bengali Language Movement (; Bhasha Andolon), also known as the Language Movement, was a political effort in Bangladesh (then known as East Pakistan), advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as an official language of Pakistan. Such recognition would allow Bengali to be taught in schools and used in government affairs.
- Bengali theatre - Bengali theatre means theatres in which the dialogues are in the language Bengali. However, there are some Hindi theatres as well which are widely accepted by the Bengali people (e.
- Romanization of Bengali - The Romanization of Bengali, or the representation of the Bengali language in the Latin script. While different standards for romanization have been proposed for Bengali, these have not been adopted with the degree of uniformity seen in languages such as Japanese or SanskritIn Japanese there exists some debate as to whether to accent certain distinctions, such as ...