The Bengali alphabet, also known as the Bangla alphabet and the Bengali-Assamese alphabet, is used to write Bengali, Assamese, and sometimes Sanskrit.

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Though Sanskrit is primarily a literary language today, there have been efforts to revive it in vernacular use, and currently there are growing numbers of people in India and Nepal who identify as native speakers of Sanskrit. Sanskrit has influenced the lexicon of many other languages in India, and through religion has also had an impact on languages in Southeast Asia and beyond. The majority of ancient and medieval Hindu scriptures used Sanskrit, as did some texts important to Buddhism and Jainism. Many important works of ancient Indian literature were composed in Sanskrit, and were passed down orally for centuries before being written. The Sanskrit holds great importance in Indian culture, similar to that of Greek and Latin in European culture. As a result, it is one of the most used writing systems in the world today. Devanagari is now used not only for writing Sanskrit, but also a variety of other languages, mostly fellow Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi, Marathi and Nepali. Some other scripts, such as Gujarati, were later based on Devanagari. Other scripts like Gupta and later Nagari, based on Brahmi, emerged in the first millennium CE, and Devanagari in its modern form was in use by the 11th century. Before the development of Devanagari, Sanskrit was written using the ancient Brahmi script. Devanagari is written from left to right and does not differentiate letter cases. Its 33 consonants are written in full, and vowels are represented with the use of diacritics which modify the consonant letter.

Devanagari is an abugida, and unlike alphabets such as Greek or Latin, is not written with complete vowels. Throughout its history, Sanskrit has been written using many systems, and local scripts continue to be used, but its primary writing system is the Devanagari script. Sanskrit (संस्कृत) is one of India’s many recognized languages and the liturgical language of Hinduism.

Sanskrit letter with bengali