@@king_halcyon And so he did, but as you said just the attempt itself is really touching, it almost makes me emotional. Maybe this is close to what they mean when they say diversity and representation is important, it's just insane (in a good way) to me to see this guy on the internet appreciate my language since we don't get talked about much
@@sou_rYeah it seems like he pronounced each vowel exactly as written, so he pronounced e-kar as (eh) even though its pronounced (ae) and (o) as (ou) instead of (oah). Not his fault though, the vowels being open or closed seems pretty arbitrary unless you dig deep
as an indian bengali (+both sides of my family was displaced in 1971 from bangladesh) i think i could predict that 99% of the viewers would also be bengalis and i do not mind and i am so glad to see someone non-bengali talk about it hehehaha
@@shubh.bapi_9423 I am quite a huge mix lol. My maternal family stems in the region of Bengal that is now under Bangladesh (my grandpa fled during the partition of Bengal, alone, as a small child :( ). My paternal family has stems in both the regions of Bangladesh (grandpa's family fled during partition) and Rajasthan (since we're Rajputs). So I am a Bangal who likes to consider himself as Ghoti 😂❤.
Yes, Bengali is so CRIMINALLY underrated that even Bengali people don't recognise the potential of their language, and give more focus to English or some other language. ( Caste and education related politics are major reasons for this)
That’s mainly because our schools made us hate the language with the constant exams and no proper resources. Bengali is also useless in the internet as most of us spend as much as 10 hours+ on the internet. Our languages: English is a necessity Arabic for Islam Bengali, for just speaking with our family 😂 (because there’s no way in hell we’d be speaking Bengali with them if they knew English/arabic)
We lack the exposure. Content? Hell nah we're one of the most interesting languages in India. Not to mention that we also have the sweetest language in the world tag. Most Nobel Laureates from India are Bengalis and most of the famous film-makers, singers, and composers are Bengalis, including Satyajit Ray, who is considered as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of cinema and is often credited with bringing Indian cinema to the global stage.
@@PnbOrca603 Aree gadha I am the one who's ethnically, religiously and culturally Bengali. You on the other hand, my friend, might not be considered an ethnic Bengali in traditional terms. Always remember, Bengalis are Indians. Some Bengalis whose ancestors got converted to a different religion, made a new country, which in no way represents "real" Bengali. We are the real deal. People who don't celebrate Durga Pujo, don't read about Bengali literature and don't speak pure Bengali, shouldn't talk about being ethnically Bengali, doesn't suit their mouth.
two common thoughts as an American watching these videos: 1. Of course our government was involved in an atrocity 2. Can't even comprehend how language is viewed in some regions of the world... So fucking cool
@@noonecares5325 I didn't say about "Dhaka" , I said about the dialect "Dhakaiya" . And yes , most people of Greater Dhaka ( Dhaka and surrounding districts ) do say "Daka" instead of "Dhaka" , some even pronounce it "Daha" . But standard Bengali pronunciation is "Dhaka" .
I remember here in France, we would learn how our language is so high on the list of most spoken languages (which is good for globalization and stuff), and among those ranking above French (idk where that 310 mil figure came from, maybe massive population growth in francophone Africa?), Bengali was always the one that I (and most of my classmates) didn't know anything about. I'm glad that more people are giving attention to non-European languages nowadays.
That's because English speakers talk casually, so they speak in their own way, and that's correct for them. We cannot always expect them to speak in the 'correct' way we perceive. But LingoLizard is consciously making efforts to speak the name in our version of the correct way, and he can.
Still not perfect. I'm tired of having to perfect my English pronunciation all the time and non-Bengalis getting so much praise for saying maybe just one word semi-correctly
@@anweshakar146 well, I never try to pronounce English correctly, I always do it in my own way and it is one of the benefits of global language... depend on region its pronunciation changes ( hear american 'often' and british 'often' pronounciation)... I praise him cause many English speaking people don't bother to make conscious effort to pronounce other language correctly.. but he did.. you don't get praise because ENGLISH IS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE AND EVERBODY EXPECTS ( ESPECIALLY IN SOME INTERVIEWS) YOU TO SPEAK IT DECENTLY CAUSE YOU HAVE LEARN IT FROM CHILDHOOD... NOW If you speak a little bit good Punjabi to a native speaker probably he/she also praises you FOR LEARNING THEIR LANGUAGE AND PRONOUNCING THEM SOMEWHAT CORRECTLY..
I feel shocked and disgusted that we haven't yet been taught about the Bangladesh genocide. I only learned about it today, that is absolutely heartbreaking. Awesome video bro
@@celestia4439Both are bad ! I don’t know why people love to pretend theyre opposites, when both the pakistani administration and bangladeshi administration are corrupt
The first Asian Nobel laureate was Rabindranath Tagore - he was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913 - all written in Bengali, translated by himself and his good friend the Irish poet Y. B Yeats who himself received the Nobel prize in 1923.
It's really not on target. The bar is very low, even Hindi people who try to speak Bangla (even after living here for generations) in Kolkata get such applause even if they're totally off target
Sometimes I love TH-cam for recommending this stuff. Bengali is a really underrated language and I am not even lying Bengali sounds really beautiful.❤️
holy shit ive never seen someone go this in-depth into the bangla language, thank u for presenting EVERYTHING in the proper way and not simplifying the harder letters/words. huge admiration for u and ur work bro well done, and thank you for educating sm people about our language as well as myself!
Alhamdulillah as a Bangladeshi, I feel very happy and proud that you made a video about our language since our ancestors fought and gave their life for this language.
Got hooked on Bengali when I was making the IMLD monument in Finland - a very intriguing language and the script is probably even more beautiful than Devanagari per se IMHO. This was an unexpectedly good & thorough video, keep up the good work! Greetings from Finland!
From another outsider's perspective: the Bengali script has too many triangles and corners for me, it looks rough and cutting. I prefer the more rounded and soft Devanagari. Although my favourite South Asian script is by far Burmese, it's all circles!! So rounded and beautiful
*What a wonderful video. Probably the first time seeing someone from the west talking about Bengali. Thank you for this very detailed video. অনেক ধন্যবাদ ও শুভকামনা* ❤
Words cannot describe how happy this made me. Finally someone spoke about the struggles of our Bangladeshi brothers and sisters. Every pronunciation was near accurate. Im glad you covered this topic. Thank you 💚❤
I'd be surprised to know how much work you put into this video to make it a reasonable one. Obviously, that starts with your Bangla pronounciation. You've deserved a subscription to the channel at least, and you've got one. Thanks for the video.
Bro the way my jaw _dropped_ at 4:16. Congratulations sir! You are literally the very first person who does not speak an Indic language that I have seen pronounce the full set of breathy voiced consonants _perfectly._ A fantastic video, and we Bengalis appreciate the effort that went into making this. It means a lot to us, especially because it is extremely rare for us to see our language discussed in linguistic circles, as you highlighted. Thank you for doing our wonderful language justice. Edit: A slight correction I haven’t seen mentioned yet is a spelling error in the list of postpositions shown at 8:31. সম্মন্ধে is incorrect. সম্বন্ধে is what it should be.
@@adibajannat334Incorrect. You guys don't even speak proper Bangla, but a very Urduized version of it. The audacity to humiliate us, when you are the ones to remove Robi Thakur's song as your anthem. We aren't Delhi's servants. Rather, India is surviving because of us (just like Bangladesh does). Atleast our country has the national anthem & national song written by Robi Thakur & Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Toder toh sheta'o neyi, lmao. Abar boro-boro kotha.
Very nice video, man! I appreciate that you finally did Bengali, since your Assamese video kept me longing for a video about my own tongue. However, I should tell you about some slight errors: * 2:50 the map is not correct. The dialect is spoken across Bangladeshi districts above Jessore and below Pabna as well, west of the Padma [Ganges]. Also, the color extends to Kolkata, but that dialect is distinct and more akin to the "Sundarbani" lects than this one - therefore, the sketch is biased af. * 4:30 the breathy version of B is almost never pronounced as a fricative akin to V except in some pronunciations for loanwords like "ভিসা" (from English 'visa'). It is either pronounced as breathy B or, for many Eastern dialects, a plain B with distinct vowel tone. * 4:40 afaik, H is voiceless at word ends as well, and often dropped at that position (also medially, for many tadbhavas / inherited lexicon). * 4:50 since you mention the dialects, you should specify that not all the western dialects merge S and Sh. For example, the Nadia [Nodiya] dialect, aka the main basis for standard Bengali across BD and IND, often distinguishes the two. So you can say it _some_ western dialectal thing, but not really as _few_ dialects as those which say the breathy retroflex tap distinctly. Again, many eastern dialects often debuccalize the Sh to plain H, like Shagor 'sea' is pronounced Ha(g)or - speaking of which, the "g" velar often fricatives and dropped almost always after the fricativization, in many eastern dialects. * 4:44 you can technically mention that the nasalization (anusvara ং) in Sanskrit, which just nasalized a vowel before a consonant in it, is universally pronounced as the velar nasal in Bengali, which is why native (tadbhava & deśya) terms with nasalized vowels put the candrabindu (ঁ) above the matra of them. * 4:26 you should add that that both voiceless labials fricativize to the F sound in some eastern dialects, as well as that the aspirated form of velar K can fricativize even in fast standard speech, or at word final positions in there, and of course the fricative [x] pronunciation can encompass both the plain and aspirated K sounds in some eastern dialects, again. However, aspirated dental T is generally either retained aspirated or made plain, but never fricativized (? though, it might become like that in fast/finishing speech for some) * 6:50 Sanskrit pronounced the first one as a syllabic, potentially retroflexed, R, not as "ri". The next two were also pronounced with the more backed vowel (represented by alpha in IPA). * 7:00 hey, you can't forget Portuguese! Sino-Tibetan words are not so dominant, and most of them prolly are from an older substrate language of the land. But Portuguese words are more widely used in everyday life, at least for us city-dwellers. * 7:12 Christians don’t exactly use more Sanskrit vocab, but rather more Anglo and Portuguese vocab. Buddhists may also use some Pali words, but I am not too sure of this. * 8:27 "gula" and the kin terms to it are more predominant. I have travelled quite a lot to tell you that. * 7:47 objective has two affixes: -ke and -re, with the former being more used in the "standard" and many western dialectal speech, but both are used widely. Sorry, if this comment was hard to read. I really liked your video, and I just want to improve the accuracy of it!
About 2:50 - Kushtia district itself is dialectically variant. Eastern Kushtia regions (Kumarkhali and Khoksa) have close to zero Rarh influence, the speeches there are more like Vanga speeches. But yes, Western Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga generally have more Rarh-like speeches. Especially, the border regions like Vaidyanathtala/Mujibnagar, Darshana have the Standard Bengali speech. About 4:26 - Yes, both /p/ and /pʰ/ become /f/~/ɸ/ in Eastern dialects. This change is very common in casual speeches, and is found even in Kushtia speeches. /k/ and /kʰ/ become /x/ in Sylhet, and further become /h/~/∅/ in Chittagong, Noakhali, and sporadically in Barishal and Dhaka speeches. But I've never heard /t/ and /tʰ/ becoming /θ/ for anyone. I agree with the other points!
You're right! Not many people talk about Bangladesh. As a Bangladeshi, I feel very happy that you discussed this topic. I loved your pronunciation of Bengali words.❤
As a Bengali from Nadia district (speaking Rarhi Bengali), I find it very nice that some non-Indian/non-Bengali person is making a video on our beloved language.
Greater Kushtia district of Bangladesh is also part of historical Nadia and rahri dialect... during partition Nadia was later added to West Bengal in exchange of Chakma district of chittagong in demands of indian congressmen
@@stxfdt1240 i mentioned that to promote bengali ethnic unity and avoid arrogancy arriving from the standard dialect theory of Nadia. We are the largest ethnic group in South Asia. Cheers
@@belstar1128 ofc, LOTS of content IN Bengali. I'm talking about English videos ABOUT Bengali and other Indian languages and most other asian languages
Broooo I'm a Bengali from the West Bengal state of India and I'm so happy seeing my favourite channel doing a video on my language! Your pronunciations were a little off but that's probably because I speak the Kolkata dialect or smh Bhalo theko!
Thanks for making this video Bengali surely doesn't get the amount of apprehension and popularity which it deserves অনেক অনেক ভালবাসা(lots of love) from West Bengal ❤🇮🇳
Do you think you'll go over some native languages of the United States? The Chinuk wawa language of the PNW is quite interesting, being widespread until (relatively) recently. It is currently trying to be revived by the tribes who spoke it. However, it wasn't a language specific to a tribe, since it was a trade language, so the intent is just to get people to learn it.
@@alexswift-scott5711 There is the r/ChinookJargon subreddit, and a fairly active discord link on that. It's not the most active since it's a small community, but if you ask questions you will get answers! They also have a lot of good resources there.
Lovely video although I might just point out that the actual phonetic realisation of the র letter is more of a tap/flap [ɾ] (or even an approximant [ɹ], like has been mentioned in the video for [r] and [ɽ] merging) rather than a trill like you've described around 3:37. As someone who speaks Bengali as a second language (although I'm not a fluent speaker) and as I've visited Kolkata a lot over the years to see my relatives there (my parents and the majority of my relatives are from Kolkata, although I'm born & bred in the UK), I have hardly heard anyone roll that r for র like you would hear in languages like Spanish or Italian (and even if some people roll/trill it, that is very rare in Bengali) and my mum, who was born and raised in Kolkata, once told me that the র letter is never trilled/rolled and that its more of a softer-sounding rhotic to the Retroflex Flap/Tap [ɽ] (represented by the ড়, ঢ় letters) so it would phonetically be either [ɾ] or [ɹ].
Don't be scared. 🙂 As a Belarusian of partly Bengali ancestry, I can understand some Romani words, like "dui" (two) and "pani" (water), because they're the same in Bangla.
@@Albus_TheProfessor. Indian Army helped Bangladesh against Pakistan army. And Bengali is a language of India too. Bangla originates from Sanskrit & Sanskrit is an Indian language. Thank you. Just because partition happened - and a separate country was created by Muslim league - doesn't mean that Bengali is not an Indian language.
Being a Bengali speaker I found this really a great research you have done and spectacular pronunciation you had has Amzad me. Never heared Bengali in foreigners voice this good.. Thumbs up.
I speak Bangla as my home language, though it's very broken Bangla as I've lived in a majorly English-speaking country for most of my life. A lot of English words substitute the Bangla equivalent when I'm speaking as my English vocabulary far surpasses my Bangla one. This is especially the case for verbs, for example instead of saying ami ghai (I eat) I could say ami eat kori (I do *eat*)
I do this same when speaking urdu but the other way round. “I’m showering” turns onto “I’m nainai-ing” and “My blanket tore” becomes “My chaadar phatted” 💀
As someone from Bangladesh, I am happy you made a video about our language. Also extra subscriber because your youtube channel and videos is very good!
I once had a Quora question called “Do you want to learn Bengali” and said “Yes , I’d like to”. However I still need reasons, I have no Bengali friends. Convince me to learn Bengali
Bengali has many speakers and a beautiful literary history and tradition; if this is not reason enough, perhaps you shouldn't bother learning it anyway.
@Db-me87ol OK, I want to hear how it sounds like first, can you put me any random link of a video in Bengali, so that I’m fully convinced. Actually nvm, Ikm almost convinced
For one, It has great literature, arguablly the best from the subcontinent. Being the 7th largest spoken language also opens door to 270 million people. And you should watch India in Pixel's "Why does Bengali sound so sweet" video if you are looking for cool features of the language.
If it lines with your political interests Bengal has had a long history of progressive, revolutionary and even leftist movements with great works of literature, music and film dedicated to social causes and struggles. Check out "Pother panchali" ( পথের পাঁচালি) by Satyajit Ray for instance. Or the short stories of Tagore. Also Bengal has an incredibly complex modern history. A Bengali anti colonial revolutionary, M.N Roy, actually founded the communist parties of both Mexico and India. It reads like an adventure story. Or you could check out Dhan Gopal Mukherjee, another revolutionary who moved to America to garner support for Indian freedom during WW1, settled there, married a local and became a bestselling author. Though his stories were in English, I think this should at least interest you in knowing more about Bengal and maybe learning the language. Or you could read "Am Ãṭir Bhępu" আম আঁটির ভেঁপু which is somewhat shortened version of Pother Panchali more suited for light reading. It's a truly beautiful and humanizing look into the mundane lives and struggles of rural Bengali life.
You will be introduced to one of the best pieces of literature in the mordern era. The first Asian to win a Nobel prize was Rabindranath, he received it in literature.
Finally, I Am Really Glad To See My Mother Language Getting Spoken Of! I Haven't Seen Many People Talking About It, But Whenever I Do, I Feel So Happy! Thank You. :)
Love to my Bengali brothers! 🇵🇰❤️🇧🇩 What happened with Bangladesh was definitely the fault of our army along with a bunch of other factors. Alot of us, at least here don't support what happened with Bengalis. But alot of us are starting to hate our army more since they not only oppressed Bengalis but also rigged our elections and all.
Yeah it was all politics and stuff. We bangladeshis don't hate pakistani ppl. But the funny thing is how US always finds itself on the wrong side whenever there is a genocide.
@@saadsEscapeyeah the government and especially army are not good at all and you're right that they should've owned up about what they did to Bengalis, but at least concerning us Pakistanis we are fine with you guys and don't support what happened in 1971.
7:29 adjectives before nouns isnt a strict rule changing the order changes the meaning too 'bhalo ekta boi' = this book is good 'ekta bhalo boi' = a good book
Is ekta not an adjective here? I think the adjectives before nouns is the rule. But I can still think of an exception. “boi bhalo” doesn’t work, but “boi ekta” does. Maybe numbers are treated differently like in Sanskrit? The word order isn’t even slightly strict. SOV is entirely optional. “dekhechi tomake ami” is completely acceptable, understandable, etc..
As an italian ive been fascinated by this language in the past years. It just sounds good, and i was shocked to realize that no popular language application teaches it.. and the sparse tutorials around are not solid, with translations having different pronunciations and grammar.
@@minskdhaka Bengalis and Assamese being friends with each other? You wouldn't say? Nice. :) Last time I tried making a joke about Bengali and Assamese, it didn't go over well. 😅
Being a Bengali from Kolkata who speaks Kolkata-Bengali or rather the Rarhi dialect in which most of the classic Bengali literature was written, I am very satisfied with your pronunciations of many Bengali words which I sometimes try to make my Italian friends say, but they can't pronounce correctly. Your work was well read. I also realised that I never know all the rules as in theory, but I follow them unknowingly being a native speaker, so is the case for every language speaker that they hardly are conscious of their grammar rules all the time and yet follow them by default, its like we are born with the language installed within us, some sort of language genes.
apparantly they are insane for us too lol. atleast where i live more and more consonants are being replaced by english consonants. like the r trill and rh becoming r and ph becoming f
@@EnderGradRPCindeed Bangla grammar is so hard most of people don't get good number in it But i think he is confused because he(yt-er) is just pronouncing the word sound not the whole word
@@tastyfood2020 I think Bengali grammar has a lot of unnecessary memorization and categories that are never going to be used other than being a "cool thing". And as usual, memorization isn't a very effective way of studying. Grammar is there to serve as a foundation, not some extra encyclopedia for the language.
As an English speaker, until a few years ago, I didn't know how complicated English sounds, especially those in my own hybrid American-Canadian English are.
I don't think so. I think Indian Bengali speaks like the way you would write Bangla on a book - very proper. Whereas Bangladeshis are more informal, they pronounce words differently, or refuses to pronounce certain letters in the word at all. It's very casual tone and everyone speaks in their local dialect without feeling ashamed. I think this is very sincere of them to do so. When Bangladeshis go to Kolkata, it's so obvious they are from Bangladesh based on the way they talk.
@@EL14840 there is. Indian Bengali underwent sanskritization in the 19th and 20th centuries, thanks to which many Sanskrit words were reintroduced into Bengali, like jol (water), aakash (sky), nodi (river), shorojontro (conspiracy), .etc. Bangladeshi Bengali, on the other hand, has mostly retained its influences from Urdu and Arabic, like paani (water), aasman (sky), doriya (river), saajish (conspiracy), .etc. Not only the way we talk, the words we use can also be relied on to distinguish Indian Bengali from Bangladeshi Bengali. Eg. noon vs lobon, lonka vs morich, .etc Written Bengali is however pretty much same in both the countries
@@abracadabra16234 Paani is Urdu, but isn't of Persian or Arabic origin, so it's likely another borrowing from Sanskrit into Bengali or just another tadbhava.
@@EL14840written bengali/standard dialect and Bangladeshi national language is same as West bengali standard dialect... it's just the common words that have a muslim bengali version and hindu bengali version for both sides of the border, but it will be wrong to say the spoken hood language of urban dhaka is the formal language of bangladeshi bengalis... it's a cool mix of grammo (hood) and sophisticated balance in Urban dhaka for spoken purposes only
Eastern indo-aryan is very interesting in general. Maithili has polypersonal agreement, Some dialects of Odia have up to 4 genders and 4 numbers, Sylheti lost all voicing and aspiration distinctions and has a bunch of tones, Assamese has way too many verb forms. They all have incredibly extensive honorific and register distinctions as well. Most of these are thought to descend from Magadhi Prakrit, a middle Indo-aryan language from which Pali, the core liturgical language of buddhism, is based on. It is also Pali the one Indian language which european-speaking ears typically find the most phonetically pleasant in my opinion.
Yes, very interesting. I believe there were at least four different substrates responsible for this. I can't go into detail now, but at least the shifting of all sibilants to one pronunciation seems to be the effect of one lost substrate, and Bengal prolly also had another distinct, lost substrate that interacted with this one. The other two were Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan. Well, this is just my theory. Apologies for not being able to elaborate. Hopefully you can enlighten me as well.
@@king_halcyon When one hears "4 substrates" the logic follows that these must be Sino-tibetan, Austroasiatic, Dravidian and whatever mysterious languages were spoken in North India before the aryans (Harappan?) The most obvious layering over or under east IA is first Tibeto-Burman and features of Munda are easily recognizable as well... as for the other two I would not know. The northern dravidian languages may be a latter northeastward migration -And Harappan may have not reached so further east.
এই হতভাগ্য বাংলা, যে ভাষা রবি ঠাকুর, বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, হেম-মধু-বঙ্কিম-নবীন এর মতো ব্যক্তিত্ব গড়ে তুলল, বর্তমানে সেই ভাষাটিই লিখতে সকলের ইংরেজী হরফের সাহায্য নিতে হচ্ছে।
Where the fuck did he say you are Indian… 56% of you live in Bangladesh, he literally mentioned Bangladesh several orders of magnitude more often than India… If you’re talking about the term “indic” that is a scholarly term, like how English is Germanic, but not German.
As I bengali, thank you to bring our language forward to the International audience but I feel the focus on linguistic terms and facts was too heavy than needed. But hey, good work regardless. অনেক অনেক ধন্যবাদ জানাই ভাই ☺❤
I feel like this has been heavily simplified while being filled with minutiae, which makes it not useful as a comprehensive overview of the features of the language, neither as a fun introduction to Bangla. It sits in a weird middle ground. Thanks for your effort nonetheless. I'm sure you're not well acquainted with the language though. To elaborate on just one example, Bangla has a preferred word order, SOV, but any order is accurate. This is true for most sentences. To take from your example sentence, 'তুমি আম কাটবে' can be rearranged in all permutations and still convey the same meaning. This is because the verb and the pronoun already have information baked in that specify which is the subject, and which is being acted upon. It's also very common in everyday speech to use SVO or OVS, like 'তোমাকে কাটবে আম' (The mango will cut you). Basically, we can choose whatever word order we want in most cases. And the general rule of thumb is that the focus, or the thing that is most emphasized will come first. So we'd say 'আম খাবে তুমি?' (Will you eat mango? Word order wise - Mango eat you?) if we want to focus on the fact that it's mango we're offering. Or we'd say 'তুমি আম খাবে?' (You eat mango?) if we want to focus on the person. 'খাবে তুমি আম?' (Eat you mango?) will be an odd way to say it because it focuses on eating. But it's also used, especially with a pause, like 'খাবে তুমি, আম?' where the sentence is bifurcated, resembling a meaning like 'Will you eat, it's mango?'. And so on, every way to arrange the words will be intelligible and even usable in daily speech.
This is such a great video I never knew so much about bangla and found it so cool to contrast it with Hindi for example. I would love a video on the South Indian languages (maybe one just for kannada but lowk I’m biased) I would also love a video contrasting the northern and southern Indian languages
First non-Indic person I've heard who could actually say ঢ (dh). Well done!
Until ড় ঢ় arrives
Uniquely, it also shows up in some Irish accents
Wait until you see Javanese people
It exists in Hindi too (धा)
@@madiam4u I’m talking about ढ
You actually pronounced it Dhaka and not Dacca, this is so cool
I think he pronounced it alveolar instead of retroflex, but I like that he tried!
Kid named 'nativisation of loanwords'
@@king_halcyon And so he did, but as you said just the attempt itself is really touching, it almost makes me emotional. Maybe this is close to what they mean when they say diversity and representation is important, it's just insane (in a good way) to me to see this guy on the internet appreciate my language since we don't get talked about much
It’s wack! It’s daka
@@goatpepperherbaltea7895are you stupid?its pronounced "Dhaka".
Every time you pronounce a bangla word, your slight accent makes me weirdly happy
11:54 it really does sound alien to me like he has rolled his tongue inward
@@sou_rYeah it seems like he pronounced each vowel exactly as written, so he pronounced e-kar as (eh) even though its pronounced (ae) and (o) as (ou) instead of (oah). Not his fault though, the vowels being open or closed seems pretty arbitrary unless you dig deep
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Umm maybe studying some works of baba robindro ji can help that
@@YorkShire-fb1jq I agree, French is hard...
as an indian bengali (+both sides of my family was displaced in 1971 from bangladesh) i think i could predict that 99% of the viewers would also be bengalis and i do not mind and i am so glad to see someone non-bengali talk about it hehehaha
Hi!!! I am a bangal too! 😂❤ My entire maternal and paternal ancestors (grandparents) were from Dhaka and Barisal.
no iam from kerala
@@shubh.bapi_9423 I am quite a huge mix lol.
My maternal family stems in the region of Bengal that is now under Bangladesh (my grandpa fled during the partition of Bengal, alone, as a small child :( ).
My paternal family has stems in both the regions of Bangladesh (grandpa's family fled during partition) and Rajasthan (since we're Rajputs).
So I am a Bangal who likes to consider himself as Ghoti 😂❤.
Same!
yoo same
Yes, Bengali is so CRIMINALLY underrated that even Bengali people don't recognise the potential of their language, and give more focus to English or some other language. ( Caste and education related politics are major reasons for this)
That’s mainly because our schools made us hate the language with the constant exams and no proper resources.
Bengali is also useless in the internet as most of us spend as much as 10 hours+ on the internet.
Our languages:
English is a necessity
Arabic for Islam
Bengali, for just speaking with our family 😂 (because there’s no way in hell we’d be speaking Bengali with them if they knew English/arabic)
@@enacausmembrane আপনি কি বাংলাদেশের বাঙালি?
@@soumyadeepdutta3726
জি
@enacausmembrane same I also hate bangla because of rochona like seriously have to memorize 40 rochona
একদম সঠিক
Bangla is so underrated. It is like portugesse where a lot of people speak it but no one learns it. Also do video on Panjabi
I hear punjabi all the time but can't find any good summaries like this for it, so it would be great
agreed would love to see smth on punjabi
Panjabi is soo similar to hindi.
I being a Bengali, I Love Punjabi so much.
@@Huuuuuuuuuuuu107 Yeah, and Italian is basically Turkish 🤡.
Mulla ate Mashalchi Dono ikko chitt
Lokkan karde chann'na aap hanere nitt
For a top 10 language in the world, Bengali sure lacks a lot of content and exposure. Thanks for making this video which is very well researched.
We lack the exposure. Content? Hell nah we're one of the most interesting languages in India. Not to mention that we also have the sweetest language in the world tag. Most Nobel Laureates from India are Bengalis and most of the famous film-makers, singers, and composers are Bengalis, including Satyajit Ray, who is considered as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of cinema and is often credited with bringing Indian cinema to the global stage.
I meant on the internet
@@justsomeguy335 agreed
@@xlr8_bs514 you are west bengali your not ethnically bengali just another hindu indian, we are not indian
@@PnbOrca603 Aree gadha I am the one who's ethnically, religiously and culturally Bengali.
You on the other hand, my friend, might not be considered an ethnic Bengali in traditional terms.
Always remember, Bengalis are Indians. Some Bengalis whose ancestors got converted to a different religion, made a new country, which in no way represents "real" Bengali.
We are the real deal. People who don't celebrate Durga Pujo, don't read about Bengali literature and don't speak pure Bengali, shouldn't talk about being ethnically Bengali, doesn't suit their mouth.
two common thoughts as an American watching these videos:
1. Of course our government was involved in an atrocity
2. Can't even comprehend how language is viewed in some regions of the world... So fucking cool
america's government is just terrible 😭
When Canada takes over the world you won't have to worry about that anymore.
Funny how whenever there is a genocide, US always finds itself on the wrong side.
yeah, governments always suck everywhere.
It's good to see that people from the US also respect different cultures
Literally clapped when you perfectly pronunced the sounds ❤🇧🇩
2:58 The /h/ in Sylhet is silent, but at least someone's finally talking about Bangla.
Also in Dhakaiya , the H is often silent , I think it is the case for most Bengali dialects of Bangladesh
Depends on your dialect.
In all eastern dialects yes
@@Morshed2005'h' isn't silent in 'Dhaka'
It doesn’t pronounce like 'Daka' but 'Dhaka'
@@noonecares5325 I didn't say about "Dhaka" , I said about the dialect "Dhakaiya" . And yes , most people of Greater Dhaka ( Dhaka and surrounding districts ) do say "Daka" instead of "Dhaka" , some even pronounce it "Daha" . But standard Bengali pronunciation is "Dhaka" .
As an Indian Bengali I thank you for making a video about our language not many people talk about it
Ki bolchis bhai, it's the second most spoken language in India after Hindi
Akebare thik kotha kintu onno desher manus ra khub akta bole na bangla niye kotha tai hoito orokom bolechen uni .
And what did you sacrifice for "your" language?
@@rishavkumar1250 I don't mean the amount of people who speak bengali, I'm talking about the amount of people who acknowledge it
@@1minuteofgaming596 Our ancestors have suffered a lot for our language didnt you watch the video?
I remember here in France, we would learn how our language is so high on the list of most spoken languages (which is good for globalization and stuff), and among those ranking above French (idk where that 310 mil figure came from, maybe massive population growth in francophone Africa?), Bengali was always the one that I (and most of my classmates) didn't know anything about. I'm glad that more people are giving attention to non-European languages nowadays.
Your pronunciation of "Bangla" is better than most English speaker I have heard till now.
That's because English speakers talk casually, so they speak in their own way, and that's correct for them. We cannot always expect them to speak in the 'correct' way we perceive. But LingoLizard is consciously making efforts to speak the name in our version of the correct way, and he can.
Still not perfect. I'm tired of having to perfect my English pronunciation all the time and non-Bengalis getting so much praise for saying maybe just one word semi-correctly
@@anweshakar146 well, I never try to pronounce English correctly, I always do it in my own way and it is one of the benefits of global language... depend on region its pronunciation changes ( hear american 'often' and british 'often' pronounciation)... I praise him cause many English speaking people don't bother to make conscious effort to pronounce other language correctly.. but he did.. you don't get praise because ENGLISH IS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE AND EVERBODY EXPECTS ( ESPECIALLY IN SOME INTERVIEWS) YOU TO SPEAK IT DECENTLY CAUSE YOU HAVE LEARN IT FROM CHILDHOOD... NOW If you speak a little bit good Punjabi to a native speaker probably he/she also praises you FOR LEARNING THEIR LANGUAGE AND PRONOUNCING THEM SOMEWHAT CORRECTLY..
@@mottom2657 hmm.. that makes( his effort) me feel good ☺️☺️that's why I wrote this..
Sweetest language in the world
I'm currently learning bengal along with spanish and was desperately waiting for this video since the community post
What county are you from?
I was also desperately waiting for a video like this
Thnx. How does it feel, say easy or hard?
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 somewhere in between, I'm having fun
Hit me up If you need any kind of help regarding Bangla.
আমার ভাষা নিয়ে ভিডিও বানানের জন্য আমি আপনাকে আন্তরিকভাবে ধন্যবাদ জানাই!
I greatly appreciate you for making a video regarding my language!
Bro tomer smile onek creepy 💀💀
@@______blank____bro___________ Hahahahahahahahaha
আপনি শুদ্ধ ভাষা না বলেন নাকি তা জানি না কিন্তু বানানের না বানানোর
@@nido84 Beda ami English medium e porsilam tai amar Banglar sedabeda obostha lmfao
Bah@@Inescapeium
I feel shocked and disgusted that we haven't yet been taught about the Bangladesh genocide. I only learned about it today, that is absolutely heartbreaking. Awesome video bro
Wait till you learn about the genocide committed by Bengali people on native people of Chittagong hill Tracts in Bangladesh
@@celestia4439Both are bad ! I don’t know why people love to pretend theyre opposites, when both the pakistani administration and bangladeshi administration are corrupt
More confirmation that we humans are a bunch of dumb, greedy jerks. Everybody likes to pretend they are perfect, and nobody is.
@@celestia4439that was not a genocide
@@celestia4439bruh that was not a genocide
The first Asian Nobel laureate was Rabindranath Tagore - he was awarded the Literature Prize in 1913 - all written in Bengali, translated by himself and his good friend the Irish poet Y. B Yeats who himself received the Nobel prize in 1923.
আপনি আমার ভাষা এভাবে তুলে ধরলেন।আপনাকে অনেক ধন্যবাদ❤❤❤❤❤
As a Bangladeshi your bangla pronunciation definitely made me happy
True, he puts genuine effort in his pronunciations.
It's really not on target. The bar is very low, even Hindi people who try to speak Bangla (even after living here for generations) in Kolkata get such applause even if they're totally off target
Sometimes I love TH-cam for recommending this stuff.
Bengali is a really underrated language and I am not even lying Bengali sounds really beautiful.❤️
বাঙালি হিসেবে আপনার কাজ দেখে আমি খুব আপ্লুত ও কৃতজ্ঞ
Keep growing bro🪷❤
holy shit ive never seen someone go this in-depth into the bangla language, thank u for presenting EVERYTHING in the proper way and not simplifying the harder letters/words. huge admiration for u and ur work bro well done, and thank you for educating sm people about our language as well as myself!
arehh mama ki khobor
Alhamdulillah as a Bangladeshi, I feel very happy and proud that you made a video about our language since our ancestors fought and gave their life for this language.
Got hooked on Bengali when I was making the IMLD monument in Finland - a very intriguing language and the script is probably even more beautiful than Devanagari per se IMHO. This was an unexpectedly good & thorough video, keep up the good work! Greetings from Finland!
From another outsider's perspective: the Bengali script has too many triangles and corners for me, it looks rough and cutting. I prefer the more rounded and soft Devanagari. Although my favourite South Asian script is by far Burmese, it's all circles!! So rounded and beautiful
I agree, I totally luv the bengali script (altho I might be a lil biased since I am a bengali myself eheh) and I think more people should learn it!
Bengali uses the Brahmic Script just like Tibetan!
*What a wonderful video. Probably the first time seeing someone from the west talking about Bengali. Thank you for this very detailed video. অনেক ধন্যবাদ ও শুভকামনা* ❤
Words cannot describe how happy this made me. Finally someone spoke about the struggles of our Bangladeshi brothers and sisters. Every pronunciation was near accurate. Im glad you covered this topic. Thank you 💚❤
I'd be surprised to know how much work you put into this video to make it a reasonable one. Obviously, that starts with your Bangla pronounciation. You've deserved a subscription to the channel at least, and you've got one. Thanks for the video.
Goddamn your bengali pronunciations are on point. Lovely video, much respect!
LETS GOOOOOO 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Joy bangla bangladesh 🇧🇩 aka the lone indipendent country of bengal
@@lonewolf1469 the one n only country of Bengali Nations on this world. That's really cool❤
JOY BANGLAAA🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🇧🇩🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
WAHT THE FUCK IS MILE🇧🇩🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
JOY BANGLA ❗❗❗🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
His pronouciation of Bangla words gives me a wierd sense of happiness ❤
probs cuz it has passion behind it
Weird **
It's not correct
@@anweshakar146 it's not really about being correct
Must say!
Very well researched
Keep it up bro 🙌
Cheers from Bangladesh 🇧🇩
❤❤❤
Bangla and bangladesh 🇧🇩 ♥️
as a language nerd as well as a person in the bangladeshi diaspora this video makes me so happy
Bro the way my jaw _dropped_ at 4:16. Congratulations sir! You are literally the very first person who does not speak an Indic language that I have seen pronounce the full set of breathy voiced consonants _perfectly._ A fantastic video, and we Bengalis appreciate the effort that went into making this. It means a lot to us, especially because it is extremely rare for us to see our language discussed in linguistic circles, as you highlighted. Thank you for doing our wonderful language justice.
Edit: A slight correction I haven’t seen mentioned yet is a spelling error in the list of postpositions shown at 8:31. সম্মন্ধে is incorrect. সম্বন্ধে is what it should be.
It's a very fun language and culture. Happy to see more people talking about it.
Bengal really should be talked about more
only west bengal preserved the culture
@@Masteroogway_2 Just bcz of Bangladesh Bengali is surviving u get lost Delhi’s servant
@@adibajannat334 kangladesi chuslims are arab servent
@@adibajannat334Incorrect. You guys don't even speak proper Bangla, but a very Urduized version of it. The audacity to humiliate us, when you are the ones to remove Robi Thakur's song as your anthem.
We aren't Delhi's servants. Rather, India is surviving because of us (just like Bangladesh does). Atleast our country has the national anthem & national song written by Robi Thakur & Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Toder toh sheta'o neyi, lmao. Abar boro-boro kotha.
As a Bangladeshi I feel very happy and surprised with your correct pronounciation of the word "Bangla" and "Bangladesh"...Onek Valo(Very Good)...
Your pronunciation is spot on, my mom would be proud
Very nice video, man! I appreciate that you finally did Bengali, since your Assamese video kept me longing for a video about my own tongue. However, I should tell you about some slight errors:
* 2:50 the map is not correct. The dialect is spoken across Bangladeshi districts above Jessore and below Pabna as well, west of the Padma [Ganges]. Also, the color extends to Kolkata, but that dialect is distinct and more akin to the "Sundarbani" lects than this one - therefore, the sketch is biased af.
* 4:30 the breathy version of B is almost never pronounced as a fricative akin to V except in some pronunciations for loanwords like "ভিসা" (from English 'visa'). It is either pronounced as breathy B or, for many Eastern dialects, a plain B with distinct vowel tone.
* 4:40 afaik, H is voiceless at word ends as well, and often dropped at that position (also medially, for many tadbhavas / inherited lexicon).
* 4:50 since you mention the dialects, you should specify that not all the western dialects merge S and Sh. For example, the Nadia [Nodiya] dialect, aka the main basis for standard Bengali across BD and IND, often distinguishes the two. So you can say it _some_ western dialectal thing, but not really as _few_ dialects as those which say the breathy retroflex tap distinctly. Again, many eastern dialects often debuccalize the Sh to plain H, like Shagor 'sea' is pronounced Ha(g)or - speaking of which, the "g" velar often fricatives and dropped almost always after the fricativization, in many eastern dialects.
* 4:44 you can technically mention that the nasalization (anusvara ং) in Sanskrit, which just nasalized a vowel before a consonant in it, is universally pronounced as the velar nasal in Bengali, which is why native (tadbhava & deśya) terms with nasalized vowels put the candrabindu (ঁ) above the matra of them.
* 4:26 you should add that that both voiceless labials fricativize to the F sound in some eastern dialects, as well as that the aspirated form of velar K can fricativize even in fast standard speech, or at word final positions in there, and of course the fricative [x] pronunciation can encompass both the plain and aspirated K sounds in some eastern dialects, again. However, aspirated dental T is generally either retained aspirated or made plain, but never fricativized (? though, it might become like that in fast/finishing speech for some)
* 6:50 Sanskrit pronounced the first one as a syllabic, potentially retroflexed, R, not as "ri". The next two were also pronounced with the more backed vowel (represented by alpha in IPA).
* 7:00 hey, you can't forget Portuguese! Sino-Tibetan words are not so dominant, and most of them prolly are from an older substrate language of the land. But Portuguese words are more widely used in everyday life, at least for us city-dwellers.
* 7:12 Christians don’t exactly use more Sanskrit vocab, but rather more Anglo and Portuguese vocab. Buddhists may also use some Pali words, but I am not too sure of this.
* 8:27 "gula" and the kin terms to it are more predominant. I have travelled quite a lot to tell you that.
* 7:47 objective has two affixes: -ke and -re, with the former being more used in the "standard" and many western dialectal speech, but both are used widely.
Sorry, if this comment was hard to read. I really liked your video, and I just want to improve the accuracy of it!
very impressive
About 2:50 - Kushtia district itself is dialectically variant. Eastern Kushtia regions (Kumarkhali and Khoksa) have close to zero Rarh influence, the speeches there are more like Vanga speeches. But yes, Western Kushtia, Meherpur and Chuadanga generally have more Rarh-like speeches. Especially, the border regions like Vaidyanathtala/Mujibnagar, Darshana have the Standard Bengali speech.
About 4:26 - Yes, both /p/ and /pʰ/ become /f/~/ɸ/ in Eastern dialects. This change is very common in casual speeches, and is found even in Kushtia speeches. /k/ and /kʰ/ become /x/ in Sylhet, and further become /h/~/∅/ in Chittagong, Noakhali, and sporadically in Barishal and Dhaka speeches. But I've never heard /t/ and /tʰ/ becoming /θ/ for anyone.
I agree with the other points!
You have made me a happy man today.
For years I have been trying to improve my language, but there is no online content.
You're right! Not many people talk about Bangladesh. As a Bangladeshi, I feel very happy that you discussed this topic. I loved your pronunciation of Bengali words.❤
As a Bengali from Nadia district (speaking Rarhi Bengali), I find it very nice that some non-Indian/non-Bengali person is making a video on our beloved language.
Greater Kushtia district of Bangladesh is also part of historical Nadia and rahri dialect... during partition Nadia was later added to West Bengal in exchange of Chakma district of chittagong in demands of indian congressmen
Nadiya 😍 the appearance place of Gaurasundar 😍 You are very fortunate to live there
@@MaskedSandman chup
@@stxfdt1240 i mentioned that to promote bengali ethnic unity and avoid arrogancy arriving from the standard dialect theory of Nadia. We are the largest ethnic group in South Asia. Cheers
@@MaskedSandman chup
As a Bangladeshi, 🇧🇩, I'm impressed and can imagine the amount of research you had to do for this video. Excellent work 👍
5th video in all of youtube about any single indian language probably.. good job!
Not at all.
@@ERMZIESS ofc im exaggurating but yk, there's not too many about the languages
@@Progamezia but there is a lot in the language
@@belstar1128 ofc, LOTS of content IN Bengali. I'm talking about English videos ABOUT Bengali and other Indian languages and most other asian languages
@@Progamezia There's a fair number of videos to help English speakers learn Tamil, admittedly all by Tamilians, as you'd expect.
The pronunciation 😭😭😭😭(tears of happiness)
May god blesss u
Broooo I'm a Bengali from the West Bengal state of India and I'm so happy seeing my favourite channel doing a video on my language! Your pronunciations were a little off but that's probably because I speak the Kolkata dialect or smh
Bhalo theko!
Apnio bhalo theken, bhai/dada
hehe apnio bhalo thaken
No, his pronunciations were a bit off because they were a bit off. Let's admit it
As a Bengali from India, I am more than happy that my native language is getting some recognition. Thanks man, appreciate your effort.
what i love about bangla is the casual tones we have, the informal dialect. It's so fun
It's a very flat pronunciation, kinda like Japanese. And it's easy to learn!!
This is insane.
Your knowledge about language is so perfect.
Also your pronunciation is very well.
Thanks for making this video
Bengali surely doesn't get the amount of apprehension and popularity which it deserves
অনেক অনেক ভালবাসা(lots of love) from West Bengal ❤🇮🇳
Thank you for this video...i am proud of my language bengali...lots of love from india🇮🇳
Do you think you'll go over some native languages of the United States? The Chinuk wawa language of the PNW is quite interesting, being widespread until (relatively) recently. It is currently trying to be revived by the tribes who spoke it. However, it wasn't a language specific to a tribe, since it was a trade language, so the intent is just to get people to learn it.
naika kumtuks wawa chinuk! Do you speak it? Do you know about any communities/groups trying to promote or revive it? I want to get more involved
@@alexswift-scott5711 There is the r/ChinookJargon subreddit, and a fairly active discord link on that. It's not the most active since it's a small community, but if you ask questions you will get answers! They also have a lot of good resources there.
ohmgggg i love how u actually pronounced it quite right!!!!!!!!!! tysm for talking about it
As a Assamese and bangla speaker I love this video definitely a beautiful video. ❤❤
Lovely video although I might just point out that the actual phonetic realisation of the র letter is more of a tap/flap [ɾ] (or even an approximant [ɹ], like has been mentioned in the video for [r] and [ɽ] merging) rather than a trill like you've described around 3:37. As someone who speaks Bengali as a second language (although I'm not a fluent speaker) and as I've visited Kolkata a lot over the years to see my relatives there (my parents and the majority of my relatives are from Kolkata, although I'm born & bred in the UK), I have hardly heard anyone roll that r for র like you would hear in languages like Spanish or Italian (and even if some people roll/trill it, that is very rare in Bengali) and my mum, who was born and raised in Kolkata, once told me that the র letter is never trilled/rolled and that its more of a softer-sounding rhotic to the Retroflex Flap/Tap [ɽ] (represented by the ড়, ঢ় letters) so it would phonetically be either [ɾ] or [ɹ].
ভাই তোমার ভিডিও খুব ভালো লেগেছে। বাংলা ভাষা নিয়ে কথা বলার জন্য তোমকে ধন্যবাদ।
Thanks man. I am from Kolkata and I loved the way you actually put light in our Bangla language. Thank you❤ love from India
As a Bengali speaker, dhonobad bhai! Thank you, brother! I’ve always your channel ❤
Thank you for this very comprehensive video on Bengali, which is mother language and I'm proud of it.
It scares me how I, as a Romani Speaker, recognize that many words
Don't be scared. 🙂 As a Belarusian of partly Bengali ancestry, I can understand some Romani words, like "dui" (two) and "pani" (water), because they're the same in Bangla.
Romani is an indic language, so I suppose that makes sense
@@minskdhakaвітання, сябре, від українця з бенгальським корінням
Listen Bengali language has some foreign words. example: pencil is English word and it has no Bengali meaning
@@minskdhaka pani is used in the east. Western bengali terms water as "jol"
As a Bengali speaker never seen so detailed analysis of the letter sounds. Keep up the good work. Make one for French letters too.
Thanks for making a video on বাংলা। Love from মেদিনীপুর।
cool ! im from burichang
Yo contai is my hometown too
Thank you for recognizing and talking about our beautiful motherland!
Living in Calcutta for 3 years, now I underdstand Bangla. To me Bangla is the classiest indian language
Facts
Bangla is not an "Indian" language
@@Albus_TheProfessor. what do you mean ? is Bangla to you a Russian language ?
@@yrysf777 uh bangla to them is probably a bangladeshi language
@@Albus_TheProfessor. Indian Army helped Bangladesh against Pakistan army. And Bengali is a language of India too. Bangla originates from Sanskrit & Sanskrit is an Indian language. Thank you. Just because partition happened - and a separate country was created by Muslim league - doesn't mean that Bengali is not an Indian language.
Being a Bengali speaker I found this really a great research you have done and spectacular pronunciation you had has Amzad me.
Never heared Bengali in foreigners voice this good..
Thumbs up.
I speak Bangla as my home language, though it's very broken Bangla as I've lived in a majorly English-speaking country for most of my life. A lot of English words substitute the Bangla equivalent when I'm speaking as my English vocabulary far surpasses my Bangla one. This is especially the case for verbs, for example instead of saying ami ghai (I eat) I could say ami eat kori (I do *eat*)
its khai btw, what u said sounds like 'I am an infection'
@@ArianIbraheem probably a difference in dialect. Everyone here pronounces and romanises it as ghai.
I do this same when speaking urdu but the other way round. “I’m showering” turns onto “I’m nainai-ing” and “My blanket tore” becomes “My chaadar phatted” 💀
@@jBM7420
Not aware of any dialect which uses a "g"/"gh" sound for that particular verb
@jBM7420 so true, since influences of English so much we unconsciously use so many English words in our native languages.
As someone from Bangladesh, I am happy you made a video about our language. Also extra subscriber because your youtube channel and videos is very good!
I once had a Quora question called “Do you want to learn Bengali” and said “Yes , I’d like to”. However I still need reasons, I have no Bengali friends.
Convince me to learn Bengali
Bengali has many speakers and a beautiful literary history and tradition; if this is not reason enough, perhaps you shouldn't bother learning it anyway.
@Db-me87ol OK, I want to hear how it sounds like first, can you put me any random link of a video in Bengali, so that I’m fully convinced. Actually nvm, Ikm almost convinced
For one, It has great literature, arguablly the best from the subcontinent.
Being the 7th largest spoken language also opens door to 270 million people.
And you should watch India in Pixel's "Why does Bengali sound so sweet" video if you are looking for cool features of the language.
If it lines with your political interests Bengal has had a long history of progressive, revolutionary and even leftist movements with great works of literature, music and film dedicated to social causes and struggles. Check out "Pother panchali" ( পথের পাঁচালি) by Satyajit Ray for instance. Or the short stories of Tagore. Also Bengal has an incredibly complex modern history.
A Bengali anti colonial revolutionary, M.N Roy, actually founded the communist parties of both Mexico and India. It reads like an adventure story.
Or you could check out Dhan Gopal Mukherjee, another revolutionary who moved to America to garner support for Indian freedom during WW1, settled there, married a local and became a bestselling author. Though his stories were in English, I think this should at least interest you in knowing more about Bengal and maybe learning the language.
Or you could read "Am Ãṭir Bhępu" আম আঁটির ভেঁপু which is somewhat shortened version of Pother Panchali more suited for light reading. It's a truly beautiful and humanizing look into the mundane lives and struggles of rural Bengali life.
You will be introduced to one of the best pieces of literature in the mordern era. The first Asian to win a Nobel prize was Rabindranath, he received it in literature.
Thank you so much for such a detailed video on Bangla language. Much love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Finally, I Am Really Glad To See My Mother Language Getting Spoken Of! I Haven't Seen Many People Talking About It, But Whenever I Do, I Feel So Happy! Thank You. :)
Your voice sounds more soft and sweet while saying bengali it's so cool!
Love to my Bengali brothers!
🇵🇰❤️🇧🇩
What happened with Bangladesh was definitely the fault of our army along with a bunch of other factors. Alot of us, at least here don't support what happened with Bengalis. But alot of us are starting to hate our army more since they not only oppressed Bengalis but also rigged our elections and all.
As a Pakistani, completely agree
Yeah it was all politics and stuff. We bangladeshis don't hate pakistani ppl. But the funny thing is how US always finds itself on the wrong side whenever there is a genocide.
@rnd_penguin I know right! Its crazy that the US has committed illegal wars both against AND for Pakistan...like how can you do that???
Pure hatred toward you, brother. No forgiveness. We didn't get even a mere verbal apology from your country.
@@saadsEscapeyeah the government and especially army are not good at all and you're right that they should've owned up about what they did to Bengalis, but at least concerning us Pakistanis we are fine with you guys and don't support what happened in 1971.
This is so crazy as someone who used to live in West Bengal, India.
I’m wowed to see a video like this and I fully support you!!
7:29 adjectives before nouns isnt a strict rule
changing the order changes the meaning too
'bhalo ekta boi' = this book is good
'ekta bhalo boi' = a good book
Is ekta not an adjective here? I think the adjectives before nouns is the rule. But I can still think of an exception. “boi bhalo” doesn’t work, but “boi ekta” does. Maybe numbers are treated differently like in Sanskrit? The word order isn’t even slightly strict. SOV is entirely optional. “dekhechi tomake ami” is completely acceptable, understandable, etc..
As an italian ive been fascinated by this language in the past years. It just sounds good, and i was shocked to realize that no popular language application teaches it.. and the sparse tutorials around are not solid, with translations having different pronunciations and grammar.
Finally a video on Sea Assamese 🌊
As a Bengali who's friends with several Assamese people, I found your comment funny. 🙂
Assamese is to Bengali like Danish is to Swedish
It's also very to see interesting how Insular Frisian has become the global lingua franca, and so many people learn it.
@@minskdhaka Bengalis and Assamese being friends with each other? You wouldn't say? Nice. :) Last time I tried making a joke about Bengali and Assamese, it didn't go over well. 😅
Being a Bengali from Kolkata who speaks Kolkata-Bengali or rather the Rarhi dialect in which most of the classic Bengali literature was written, I am very satisfied with your pronunciations of many Bengali words which I sometimes try to make my Italian friends say, but they can't pronounce correctly. Your work was well read. I also realised that I never know all the rules as in theory, but I follow them unknowingly being a native speaker, so is the case for every language speaker that they hardly are conscious of their grammar rules all the time and yet follow them by default, its like we are born with the language installed within us, some sort of language genes.
sounds of this language are insane, especially the consonants, very unusual for my ear
But quite typical for Northern South Asia.
apparantly they are insane for us too lol. atleast where i live more and more consonants are being replaced by english consonants. like the r trill and rh becoming r and ph becoming f
As a Bangladeshi, I really appreciate you talking about Bangladesh.
As a Bengali, I never knew how complicated the sounds of bangla were 😭
I'm assuming you haven't or didn't get any Bangla Grammar classes?
@@EnderGradRPCindeed Bangla grammar is so hard most of people don't get good number in it
But i think he is confused because he(yt-er) is just pronouncing the word sound not the whole word
@@tastyfood2020 Oh
@@tastyfood2020 I think Bengali grammar has a lot of unnecessary memorization and categories that are never going to be used other than being a "cool thing". And as usual, memorization isn't a very effective way of studying. Grammar is there to serve as a foundation, not some extra encyclopedia for the language.
As an English speaker, until a few years ago, I didn't know how complicated English sounds, especially those in my own hybrid American-Canadian English are.
I'm from Kolkata it's fills very good to see a video about bengla
omg i cant believe people actually know about this language : D
crazy language. thank god im a native speaker or else it wouldve been very hard to learn lol
@@ArianIbraheem greatest language on the planet
As a Bangladeshi
I want to thank you for your effort for this video
Thank you vary much ❤
An important thing to note that there is a BIG difference between Indian Bengali and Bangladeshi Bengali
yeah ppl dont get it
I don't think so. I think Indian Bengali speaks like the way you would write Bangla on a book - very proper.
Whereas Bangladeshis are more informal, they pronounce words differently, or refuses to pronounce certain letters in the word at all. It's very casual tone and everyone speaks in their local dialect without feeling ashamed. I think this is very sincere of them to do so.
When Bangladeshis go to Kolkata, it's so obvious they are from Bangladesh based on the way they talk.
@@EL14840 there is. Indian Bengali underwent sanskritization in the 19th and 20th centuries, thanks to which many Sanskrit words were reintroduced into Bengali, like jol (water), aakash (sky), nodi (river), shorojontro (conspiracy), .etc. Bangladeshi Bengali, on the other hand, has mostly retained its influences from Urdu and Arabic, like paani (water), aasman (sky), doriya (river), saajish (conspiracy), .etc.
Not only the way we talk, the words we use can also be relied on to distinguish Indian Bengali from Bangladeshi Bengali. Eg. noon vs lobon, lonka vs morich, .etc
Written Bengali is however pretty much same in both the countries
@@abracadabra16234 Paani is Urdu, but isn't of Persian or Arabic origin, so it's likely another borrowing from Sanskrit into Bengali or just another tadbhava.
@@EL14840written bengali/standard dialect and Bangladeshi national language is same as West bengali standard dialect... it's just the common words that have a muslim bengali version and hindu bengali version for both sides of the border, but it will be wrong to say the spoken hood language of urban dhaka is the formal language of bangladeshi bengalis... it's a cool mix of grammo (hood) and sophisticated balance in Urban dhaka for spoken purposes only
So much information in a video this small! Lots of admiration from Bangladesh
Eastern indo-aryan is very interesting in general. Maithili has polypersonal agreement, Some dialects of Odia have up to 4 genders and 4 numbers, Sylheti lost all voicing and aspiration distinctions and has a bunch of tones, Assamese has way too many verb forms. They all have incredibly extensive honorific and register distinctions as well.
Most of these are thought to descend from Magadhi Prakrit, a middle Indo-aryan language from which Pali, the core liturgical language of buddhism, is based on. It is also Pali the one Indian language which european-speaking ears typically find the most phonetically pleasant in my opinion.
Yes, very interesting.
I believe there were at least four different substrates responsible for this. I can't go into detail now, but at least the shifting of all sibilants to one pronunciation seems to be the effect of one lost substrate, and Bengal prolly also had another distinct, lost substrate that interacted with this one. The other two were Austroasiatic and Sino-Tibetan.
Well, this is just my theory. Apologies for not being able to elaborate. Hopefully you can enlighten me as well.
@@king_halcyon When one hears "4 substrates" the logic follows that these must be Sino-tibetan, Austroasiatic, Dravidian and whatever mysterious languages were spoken in North India before the aryans (Harappan?)
The most obvious layering over or under east IA is first Tibeto-Burman and features of Munda are easily recognizable as well... as for the other two I would not know. The northern dravidian languages may be a latter northeastward migration -And Harappan may have not reached so further east.
Watching from bangladesh... you naild most of the bangla pronunciations... loved to see that... ❤
এই হতভাগ্য বাংলা, যে ভাষা রবি ঠাকুর, বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, হেম-মধু-বঙ্কিম-নবীন এর মতো ব্যক্তিত্ব গড়ে তুলল, বর্তমানে সেই ভাষাটিই লিখতে সকলের ইংরেজী হরফের সাহায্য নিতে হচ্ছে।
নজরুলও আছেন।
এ আর কি! অদৃশ্য উপনিবেশিকতার গোলামি।
Hey thank you! I mean it's nice to see us get any kind of recognition, appreiate the work
SHIVA BLESS WEST BENGAL
ALLAH BLESS BANGLADESH
DURGA
Just say Jôy Bangla (Victory to Bengal) instead. It's more inclusive and relevant for all Bengalis.
Bhai/dada, Tripura ke bhule gelen? 😢
im a bangladeshi . your bangla pronounceiation is really good never seen someone speak that good bengali
Bro 90% of bengali speakers (INCLUDING ME) are NOT indians!!😭🙏
We gav our lives for BANGLADESH, yet people still think we're indian😭😭😭😭
Where the fuck did he say you are Indian… 56% of you live in Bangladesh, he literally mentioned Bangladesh several orders of magnitude more often than India…
If you’re talking about the term “indic” that is a scholarly term, like how English is Germanic, but not German.
@@TheDrumstickEmpireI think he is replying to the other comments
Your pronounciation is so good!! Love from Bangladesh
As I bengali, thank you to bring our language forward to the International audience but I feel the focus on linguistic terms and facts was too heavy than needed. But hey, good work regardless.
অনেক অনেক ধন্যবাদ জানাই ভাই ☺❤
This is a linguistics channel, so the focus on linguistic analysis makes sense. You can watch his other videos for context.
as a Bengali From Assam Barak valley, I'm really happy for this video..
I feel like this has been heavily simplified while being filled with minutiae, which makes it not useful as a comprehensive overview of the features of the language, neither as a fun introduction to Bangla. It sits in a weird middle ground. Thanks for your effort nonetheless. I'm sure you're not well acquainted with the language though.
To elaborate on just one example, Bangla has a preferred word order, SOV, but any order is accurate. This is true for most sentences. To take from your example sentence, 'তুমি আম কাটবে' can be rearranged in all permutations and still convey the same meaning. This is because the verb and the pronoun already have information baked in that specify which is the subject, and which is being acted upon. It's also very common in everyday speech to use SVO or OVS, like 'তোমাকে কাটবে আম' (The mango will cut you). Basically, we can choose whatever word order we want in most cases.
And the general rule of thumb is that the focus, or the thing that is most emphasized will come first. So we'd say 'আম খাবে তুমি?' (Will you eat mango? Word order wise - Mango eat you?) if we want to focus on the fact that it's mango we're offering. Or we'd say 'তুমি আম খাবে?' (You eat mango?) if we want to focus on the person. 'খাবে তুমি আম?' (Eat you mango?) will be an odd way to say it because it focuses on eating. But it's also used, especially with a pause, like 'খাবে তুমি, আম?' where the sentence is bifurcated, resembling a meaning like 'Will you eat, it's mango?'. And so on, every way to arrange the words will be intelligible and even usable in daily speech.
As a Bengali I am very happy about the detailed analysis of the byakoron (grammar)
Because you basically never hear about it outside of the country of if someone is from there.
Script looks cool.
I'm slightly annoyed he picked the worst font ever. It's the default font in unicode when you don't have any bangla fonts installed.
This is such a great video I never knew so much about bangla and found it so cool to contrast it with Hindi for example. I would love a video on the South Indian languages (maybe one just for kannada but lowk I’m biased) I would also love a video contrasting the northern and southern Indian languages
Joy Hind Joy Bangla from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳
জয় ভারত জয় বাংলা! 👍❤️🇮🇳🔥
তোরা হিন্দ-হিন্দ করতে করতে হিন্দি তোদের ভাষা রিপ্লেস করে দিবে
Bangladesh great 🇧🇩🔥🌟🐅🙌
I'm from West Bengal. I'm soo happy!!! I love all languages but Bangla has a special place my heart
You should do Gujarati
Yeah, he should make more videos on Indian languages so that more people can know about Indian languages and he can boost his followers and views.