Bangla script guides
The letter pages cover one character at a time. These guides cover the patterns that connect them.
- How the Bangla alphabet worksThe shape of the writing system, before any individual letter.
- Vowel signs: the attached formsThe ten kar forms, and the one vowel that does not have one.
- Compound letters: two consonants, one shapeযুক্তাক্ষর — two letters written as one, and how to take the shape apart.
- Aspirated and unaspirated consonantsTen pairs that differ only by a puff of air.
- শ, ষ and স: the three s-lettersThree letters, very nearly one sound.
- Retroflex and dental consonantsWhere the tongue sits, and why it changes the letter.
- Bangla numbersTen digits and the words that name them.