Bengali

About Bengali

Bengali (বাংলা) is the official language of Bangladesh, as well as several states in India. The Bengali is one of the most spoken languages in the world, with a total number of 300 million speakers, thanks to the large population of Bangladesh

Bengali is written using the Bengali script, which is one of many scripts derived from the ancient Brahmi system. It is an abugida, and unlike alphabets such as Greek or Latin, is not written with complete vowels. Consonants are written in full, and vowels are represented with the use of diacritics which modify the consonant letter. Like other Brahmic scripts, it is written from left to right, without distinguishing between upper and lower case. Bengali characters usually feature a horizontal line at the top, similar to Devanagari, but unlike several other Brahmic scripts. There is also extensive use of ligatures, which combine different consonant letters into one symbol.

The Bengali script is one variety of the Bengali-Assamese script, also used for Assamese and other languages. This evolved from Siddham, a script which has since lived on in Buddhist studies, and was itself derived from Brahmi. In medieval times, the Bengali-Assamese script was used to write a variety of different languages in eastern India, including Sanskrit. Later, it became more closely tied to the Bengal region and standards were developed for each of the languages which use it today. The simplification and standardization of the Bengali version of the script in the 19^th century CE is credited to writer and philosopher Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

Bengali Fonts

You can download free Bengali fonts from our free fonts collection. If you want to use Bengali fonts online without downloading, you can use our text generator below.

The following tool will transform your text into graphics with your selection of fonts, colors, and text effects. You can then save the image or use the EMBED button to get image links.

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