Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the
national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and
the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with
90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis
scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number of native
speakers make Bangla the fifth or sixth largest language in the
world. Like Hindi and other South Asian languages, Bangla has
subject-object-verb word order, postpositions, causative and
compound verbs. Unlike Hindi it has no gender. This volume
presents a systematic overview of the language, from the sound
system to parts of speech, syntactic categories to reduplicative
features and some short text passages. The book is written in
transliteration throughout to provide ease and convenience to
non-Bengali as well as to Bengali linguists and students. In
order to connect linguistic analysis with the living language,
the book is furnished with plenty of real language examples,
demonstrating the spirit, grace