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== Old Bengal == |
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== Old Bengal == |
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The people of Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, ].<ref>"Within the Eastern Indic language family the history of the separation of Bangla from Odia, Assamese, and the languages of Bihar remains to be worked out carefully. Scholars do not yet agree on criteria for deciding if certain tenth century AD texts were in a Bangla already distinguishable from the other languages, or marked a stage at which Eastern Indic had not finished differentiating." {{harvcol|Dasgupta|2003|pp=386–387}}</ref> Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider ] to be almost unintelligible, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old Bengali. |
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The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, ].<ref>"Within the Eastern Indic language family the history of the separation of Bangla from Odia, Assamese, and the languages of Bihar remains to be worked out carefully. Scholars do not yet agree on criteria for deciding if certain tenth century AD texts were in a Bangla already distinguishable from the other languages, or marked a stage at which Eastern Indic had not finished differentiating." {{harvcol|Dasgupta|2003|pp=386–387}}</ref> Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider ] to be intelligible to a certain extent, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old Bengali. |
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== Bibliography == |
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== Bibliography == |
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|title=The Indo-Aryan Languages |
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* {{cite book |last1=Mukherji |first1=Tarapada |title=The old bengali language and text |date=1963 |publisher=Calcutta University Press |location=Calcutta (now ]) |url=https://ia803004.us.archive.org/32/items/oldbengalilanguageandtext/MUKHERJI%20The%20Old%20Bengali%20Language%20and%20Text.pdf |access-date=19 December 2024}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Mukherji |first1=Tarapada |title=The old bengali language and text |date=1963 |publisher=Calcutta University Press |location=Calcutta (now ]) |url=https://ia803004.us.archive.org/32/items/oldbengalilanguageandtext/MUKHERJI%20The%20Old%20Bengali%20Language%20and%20Text.pdf |access-date=19 December 2024}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Dr. Rameswar |title=সাধারণ ভাষাবিজ্ঞান ও বাংলা ভাষা |date=21 February 1984 |publisher=Pustak Bipani |location=] |isbn=81-85471-12-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/sadharon-bhasabiggyan-o-bangla-bhasa |access-date=19 December 2024 |language=bn}} |
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* {{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Dr. Rameswar |title=সাধারণ ভাষাবিজ্ঞান ও বাংলা ভাষা |date=21 February 1984 |publisher=Pustak Bipani |location=] |isbn=81-85471-12-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/sadharon-bhasabiggyan-o-bangla-bhasa |access-date=19 December 2024 |language=bn}} |
After the conquest of Nadia in 1204 AD, Islamic rule began in Bengal, which influenced the Bengali language. The middle or late 14th century is marked as the end of Old Bengal and the beginning of Middle Bengal.
The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, Gaudi. Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider Old Bengali to be intelligible to a certain extent, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old Bengali.