History of the Bengali language

movement aimed at making Bengali Pakistan's state language

Apabhraṃśa (, , Prakrit: ) is a term used by vaiyākaraṇāḥ (native grammarians) since Patañjali to refer to languages spoken in Northern India before the rise of the modern languages. In Indology, it is used as an umbrella term for the dialects forming the transition between the late Middle and the early Modern Indo-Aryan languages, spanning the period between the 6th and 13th centuries CE. However, these dialects are conventionally included in the Middle Indo-Aryan period. wikt:अपभ्रंश#Sanskrit| in Sanskrit literally means "corrupt" or "non-grammatical language", that which deviates from the n

1960s literary movement in the Bengali language

written language of Ancient India

sub-group of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages

thumb|An excerpt from the 10th century|10th-century Dakarnava (written in Abahattha).

language family in the Indian subcontinent

Brajabuli is an artificial literary language popularized by the Maithili poet Vidyapati. His Brajabuli lyrics about the love for Radha Krishna is considered to his best of works. Other poets emulated his writing, and the language became established in the 16th century. Among the medieval Bengali poets who wrote in Brajabuli are Narottama Dasa, Balarama Das, Jnanadas, and Gobindadas Kabiraj.

campaign to preserve the Bangla language and the Bengali culture

representation of written Bengali language in the Latin script

Portuguese missionary

Bangladeshi law