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Middle Bengali

Middle Bengali proper noun: the ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali.

Proper noun

Middle Bengali

  1. The ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali.
    • Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a ‘Modern English’ with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian...1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, Calcutta University Press, page 134

Questions about Middle Bengali

What does Middle Bengali mean?
Middle Bengali means the ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali.
What part of speech is Middle Bengali?
Middle Bengali is a proper noun.

Words near Middle Bengali in the dictionary

  1. Middle Assamese
  2. middle atmosphere
  3. middle atmospheres
  4. Middle Babylonian
  5. Middle Belt
  6. Middle Bengali
  7. middle bodies
  8. middle body
  9. Middle Breton
  10. Middle Brook
  11. Middle Brother

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