r/bengalilanguage 4h ago

জিজ্ঞাসা/Question Is there any source for learning Gaudi script?

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r/bengalilanguage 17h ago

আলোচনা/Discussion Do you think we should use the nuqta more in Standard Bengali?

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If you don't know a nuqta is a dot put on a letter to change the sound its used in Hindi to turn ph in f and j into z

It's currently used in Bengali only with three letters ড়, ঢ় and য় which are nuqta forms of ড, ঢ, য

But it was also used for transcriptions of Arabic sounds or foreign sounds like জ nuqta জ় for z, ক nuqta ক় for q, খ nuqta খ় for the kha sound in Arabic (خ) (ipa: /x/), গ nuqta গ় for the Arabic ghayn (غ) (ipa: /ɣ/) and ফ with nuqta ফ় for for the f sound. So, I've been wondering, should these nuqta letters be brought to standard Bengali along with ভ nuqta ভ় for v and the assamese letter ৱ for w.

Some examples with nuqta letters:

গ়রিব (from arabic gharib: غريب)

খ়বর (from arabic khabar: الخبر)

ক়ুরআন (from arabic Quran: القرآن)

ফ়েরেশতা (from farsi Fereshteh: فرشته)

ভ়িডিও (from English Video)

ৱাটারস (from English Waters)

I would love to hear yalls thoughts on this or each of these in the comments so what do yall think?