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"Loukik Bangla" is the Prokriṭo Bengali

The advancement of Linguistics has proven that Sanskrit is not the mother to the languages of Bengals as the origin and Prakrit (or Prokriṭo ) is to be acknowledged with respect. Yet there is no single concrete evidence available to describe Bengali as it is in pragmatic sense from the Prakrit or Prokrito point of considerations. All the primers and grammars and rules and definitions are still worshiping Sanskrit as the Holy Mother and thus the language is being described and taught. This is why 65% of the L1 Bengali learners fail to read Bengali even after finishing their elementary education (and hundreds of thousands of them have GPA-5.00 secured) and needless to talk about the learners of Bengali as a second language.  First, decolonize your mind and realize that the Bengali the 99.99% native Bengalese perceive pragmatically is not "just another Indic language derived from Sanskrit". I prefer to call it the Loukik Bangla for  it is earthly and not a castle built in t...

Let's talk about Bengali, shall we?

It is hard to find a Bengali interested to talk about Bengali these days. Yet some corns are to be puffed when you have time they say. Thus born an old Bengal blog. The purpose of this blog is to talk about the language Bangla , officially knows as Bengali worldwide. Bengali or Bangla is assumed a language of more or less a thousand-year tradition and development. Yet no definitive grammar of the language is available to recognize. A single primer is yet born for the actual or pragmatic form of the language. Due to the Sanskritizing Colonization, the written form of the language is yet too hard to perceive the actual realization of the spoken form.  We will try to talk about the following aspects in coming days: Bengali sounds  Ṭọṭshọmo : the fake-Sanskrit or distorted Indic words  Ọrḍho-Ṭọṭshọmo : the distorted Sanskrit words  Ṭọṭṿọbo or naturalized Sanskrit Indic words  Shaḍhu Ṿasha : either not-Bengali or hardly-Bengali (like Brojobuli ) Ben...