

You saw how a letter is written and might be pronounced, but there is nothing better than hearing the sound of the letters in a video or audio. With about 220 million native and about 250 million total speakers, Bengali is one of the most spoken languages in the world. It is the national and official language of Bangladesh, and one of the 22 official languages of India.

ষ Sound of ‘sh’ when the tongue touches the roots of the teeth This picture book details all 35 Bengali CONSONANTS with 4 page per Alphabet for practicing letter tracing and writing. Ma// Marc Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia. ফ Sound of ‘f’ if pronounced with closed lips ধ sound produced by coupling soft ‘d’ and ‘h’= ‘dh’ When the inherent vowel of a consonant is silent, we use hôsôntô () under that consonant. ণ Nasal sound when the tongue touches a bit away from teeth ঞ Just like ‘gn’ of gnome with a slight up movement of tongue ঝ This is produced using the naval sounds while the tongue touches the upper part of mouth cavity The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Bengali language.īelow is a table showing the Bengali alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word.

Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. Learning the Bengali alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation.
