Bengali script

The Bengali script is an Abugida system of writing belonging to the Brahmic family of scripts whose use is associated with the Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri and Sylheti languages. While it is very similar to Devanagari, it is less blocky and presents a more sinuous shaping, and is derived from a precursor of that script called Nagari. The modern script was formalized in 1778 when it was first typeset by Charles Wilkins. There are some minor differences between the version of the script used for Assamese and that used for the other languages: rô (Bengali র; Assamese ৰ) and vô (Bengali not available; Assamese ৱ).

Bengali in Unicode

The Unicode range for Bengali is U+0980 ... U+09FF.

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• Free Bangla Unicode Fonts
• Bangla Keyboard
• Open source Bangla Transliteration Library
• Free Bangla Unicode Interface
• Bengali alphabet