0980 Bengali 09FF

The Bengali script is also known as Bangla. In Assam, the preferred name of the script is Asamiya or Assamese. The Assamese language has also been written historically using distinct regional scripts known as Kamrupi.

Various signs

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "siddham, siddhirastu" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "used at the beginning of texts as an invocation" }

Independent vowels

Consonants

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Bengali va, wa" }

Various signs

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "for extending the alphabet to new letters" }

Dependent vowel signs

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "stands to the left of the consonant" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "stands to the left of the consonant" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "stands to the left of the consonant" }

Two-part dependent vowel signs

These vowel signs have glyph pieces which stand on both sides of the consonant; they follow the consonant in logical order, and should be handled as a unit for most processing.

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 09C7 09BE" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 09C7 09D7" }

Virama

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "hasant (Bengali term for halant)" }

Additional consonant

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "a dead consonant form of ta, without implicit vowel, used in some sequences" }

Sign

Additional consonants

These three consonants with nuktas are listed in CompositionExclusions.txt. That means that they do not recompose during normalization. The NFC form is the same as the decomposed sequence.

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 09A1 09BC" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 09A2 09BC" }

COMMENT_LINE { "text": ": 09AF 09BC" }

Additional vowels for Sanskrit

Reserved

For viram punctuation, use the generic Indic 0964 and 0965. Note that these punctuation marks are referred to as dahri and double dahri in Bangla.

CROSS_REF { "name2": "devanagari danda", "cp2": "0964" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "devanagari double danda", "cp2": "0965" }

Digits

Additions for Assamese

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Assamese letter ra" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Assamese letter wa" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "bengali letter va with lower diagonal (1.0)" }

Currency symbols

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "taka" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "historic currency sign" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "Bangladeshi taka" }

Historic symbols for fractional values

The use of these signs is not limited to currency, despite the character names.

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "not in current usage" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "not in current usage" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "not in current usage" }

Sign

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "ishvar" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "represents the name of a deity" }

ALIAS_LINE { "text": "svargiya" }

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "written before the name of a deceased person" }

Historic currency sign

Signs

COMMENT_LINE { "bullet": "*", "text": "indicates external sandhi in Sanskrit documents" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "bengali sign avagraha", "cp2": "09BD" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "sharada sandhi mark", "cp2": "111C9" }

CROSS_REF { "name2": "newa sandhi mark", "cp2": "1145E" }