Bangla Alphabets

There are 44 letters in Bangla script. Out of them, 12 are vowel letters and remaining 32 letters are consonants.

Bangla is the national language of Bangladesh and Official language in many states of India such as West Bengal, Tripura, Barak Valley region of the State of Assam.

Additionally, it is also spoken as a secondary language in Bay of Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Uttarakhand.

Bangla is spoken by over 210 million people around the world ^[4].

In Bangladesh, where Bengali is the national language, it is spoken by over 100 million. It is spoken by about 85 million in many states of India, primarily in the states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.

Bangla script has some really cool features that make it special:

• Curved and flowing - the letters look artistic and beautiful

• No uppercase/lowercase - all letters are the same height

• Conjunct characters - consonants can join together to form new shapes

• Vowel markers - small marks around consonants show vowel sounds

• Ancient origins - evolved from the 1,000-year-old Brahmi script

It's like calligraphy and language combined - each word looks like art!

Bangla has some challenges but also helpful features:

The challenging parts:

• New script - 44 different letters to learn

• Conjunct characters - some consonants combine in complex ways

• Different sentence structure - verb usually comes at the end

The easier parts:

• Phonetic - words are mostly spelled how they sound

• No gender rules - nouns don't have masculine/feminine forms

• Rich learning resources - lots of movies, music, and books to practice with

With regular practice, most people can start reading Bangla in 3-6 months!