Bengālī inscription from 13th c.
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| Alternate Names | Bangala |
|---|---|
| ISO 15924 | Beng 325 |
| Type | Abugida |
| Family | Indic |
| Direction | LtR |
| Diacritics | Yes |
| Contextual Forms | Yes |
| Capitals Used | No |
| Glyphs | 53-107 |
| Inventor | Unknown |
| Earliest Location | Deopara, Bangladesh |
| Earliest Date | 1200 CE |
| Latest Date | Present |
| Ancestry |
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Bangala or Bengali is one of the most widely used scripts of the Indian subcontinent. Its long history begins with the first uses of letters resembling modern glyphs in the Aphsad inscription of Ādityasena from the 7th century CE. The earliest use of the Bangala alphabet is from the Deopara inscriptions originating from the 11th century.
Today, this script is widely used for a variety of Indic languages in official and personal use.
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagchi, Tista | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Bengali Writing, 399-403 | Oxford University Press |
| Britanica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia | 2022 | Bengali langauge | Encyclopedia Britannica |
| Chakravarti, S. N. | 1938 | Development of the Bengali Alphabet from the Fifth Century A.D. to the End of the Muhammadan Rule. | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal Letters, Vol. 4, 1938: 351-391 |
| Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 34-58 | Blackwell Publishing |
| Prasad, Birendra Nath | 2021 | Archaeology of Religion in South ASia: Budhist, Brahamanica and Jaina Religious Centres in Bihar and Bengal, C AD 600-1200 | London: Routledge, p. 452, 457 |