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The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet ((ベンガル語:বাংলা লিপি) ''Bangla lipi'') is the writing system for the Bengali language and is the 6th most widely used writing system in the world. The script is shared by Assamese with minor variations, and is the basis for the other writing systems like Meithei and Bishnupriya Manipuri. Historically, the script has also been used to write Sanskrit in the region of Bengal. From a classificatory point of view, the Bengali script is an abugida, i.e. its vowel graphemes are mainly realized not as independent letters, but as diacritics attached to its consonant letters. It is written from left to right and lacks distinct letter cases. It is recognizable, as are other Brahmic scripts, by a distinctive horizontal line running along the tops of the letters that links them together which is known as ''matra''. The Bengali script is however less blocky and presents a more sinuous shape. ==History== The Bengali script evolved from the Siddhaṃ script, which belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts. In addition to differences in how the letters are pronounced in the different languages, there are some typographical differences between the version of the script used for Assamese language and that used for Bengali language. ''Illustration:'' *''rô'' is represented as in Bengali, and as in Assamese. * Assamese script has an additional character sounding ''wô'' represented as , which is absent in the Bengali script. The version of the script used for Manipuri language is also a different variation in that it uses the ''rô'' which is represented as in Bengali script without the different representation as in Assamese script, but also uses the Assamese script character sounding ''wô'' represented as , which is absent in the Bengali script. The Bengali script was originally not associated with any particular language, but was often used in the eastern regions of Medieval India and then in Pala Empire and later continued to be specifically used in the Bengal region. It was later standardized into the modern Bengali script by Ishwar Chandra under the reign of the East India Company. Today the script holds official script status in Bangladesh and India, and is associated with the daily life of Bengalis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bengali alphabet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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