

The maximum height of the letters can be 11 inches and maximum connected word length is 19 inches. Prices vary with the height of the letters.įor example: if you would like to write "Bangladesh", you would count 5 letters and pay for that. Recently, in a bid to lessen this burden on young learners, efforts have been made by educational institutions in the two main Bengali-speaking regions (West Bengal and Bangladesh) to address the opaque nature of many consonant clusters, and as a result, modern Bengali textbooks are beginning to contain more and more 'transparent' graphical. Aa-kar, ee-kar, oo-kar, e-kar, o-kar, ree-kar, ro-fola, jo-fola, etc are not counted. While estimating price, just count the main alphabet letters and conjunct consonants (jukto borno). Prices are based on vowels, consonants, and conjunct consonants. Multiple fonts available as shown in the picture. Letters are printed on 3mm (1/8 inch) acrylic/MDF/Birch plywood sheet, or 100lb cardstock paper. The Bengali script has a total of 11 vowel graphemes, each of which is called a shrobrno vowel letter. Bengali contains 28 letters (consonants and vowels).

These are perfect for signs, home decor, parties, outdoor signs, and banners, etc. Im providing the sound so that you can hear the pronunciation of the characters. Schemes such as the Harvard-Kyoto one are more suited for ASCII-derivative keyboards and use upper- and lower-case letters contrastively, so forgo normal standards for English capitalization.These are beautiful laser-cut Bengali letters/words made from high-quality acrylic/mdf/birch/cardstock sheet. Many standards (like NLK/ISO), use diacritic marks and permit case markings for proper nouns. Two standards are commonly used for transliteration of Indic languages, including Bengali. Nowadays, various romanization systems for Bengali are used, most of which do not perfectly represent Bengali pronunciation.


In the late 18th century, romanization schemes based on the French and the English alphabet were developed and utilized. However, the Portuguese-based romanization did not take root. The first people to employ the Latin alphabet in writing Bengali books were Portuguese missionaries stationed in Bengal in the 16th century. Romanization of Bengali is the representation of written Bengali language in the Latin script. There is no concept of capitalization in Bengali. Vowels and consonants are used as alphabet and also as diacritical marks. The Bengali script is a cursive script with consonants and vowels. The Bengali script can be divided into vowels and vowel diacritics/marks, consonants and consonant conjuncts (representing consonant clusters), diacritical and other symbols, digits, and punctuation marks. It is recognizable, as are other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line known as মাত্রা (matra) running along the tops of the letters that links them together. Those who have applied afresh or wish to apply further, need not submit any written letter or e-mail to WBHRB for cancellation of previous applications. Today, the script holds official script status in Bangladesh and India, and it is associated with the daily life of Bengalis.įrom a classificatory point of view, the Bengali script is an abugida: its vowel graphemes are mainly realized not as independent letters, but as diacritics modifying the vowel inherent in the base letter they are added to.īengali script is written from left to right and has no distinct letter cases. It later continued to be specifically used in the Bengal region. The Bengali script was originally not associated with any particular language but was often used in the eastern regions of the Middle kingdoms of India and then in the Pala Empire.
