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Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thompson, Hanne-Ruth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Bengali
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2012.
Colección:London Oriental and African language library ; v. 18.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number of native speakers make Bangla the fifth or sixth largest language in the world. Like Hindi and other South Asian languages, Bangla has subject-object-verb word order, postpositions, causative and compound verbs. Unlike Hindi it has no gender. This volume presents a systematic overview of the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxviii, 384 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-379) and index.
ISBN:9027273138
9789027273130
9781283895408
1283895404