There are more than five lac Bengali vocabulary in this language overall including other languages which is used as Bengali. The typical Bengali dictionary lists 75,000 separate words, of which 50,000 (67%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô (native Bengali vocabulary with Sanskrit cognates), 21,100 (28%) are তৎসম tôtsômô (words directly re-borrowed from Sanskrit), and the rest being borrowings from দেশী deshi " indigenous (Austroasiatic)" and বিদেশী bideshi "foreign" sources. However, centuries of major borrowing and reborrowing from Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit, Austroasiatic languages and other languages has led to the adoption of a wide range of words with foreign origins thus making the origins of borrowed and re-borrowed words in the Bengali vocabulary numerous and diverse, due to centuries of contact with various languages. The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit and Pali languages. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.īengali ( বাংলা Bangla) is one of the Eastern Indo-Aryan (Magadhan) languages, evolved from Magadhi Prakrit and Pali languages native to the Indian subcontinent.
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