The present study provides an overview of the origin of the language and its development throughout these eleven centuries. If we accept Chatterji’s remark, as about a hundred year has passed since the book was published, Bengali, as an independent language, has been in existence for about eleven centuries now. 1) notes, ‘t has been in existence as an independent and characterized language, or, rather, as a distinct dialect group, for nearly ten centuries’. According to the language family, Bengali is categorised as a Modern or New Indo-Aryan (NIA) language of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. As a language of more than two hundred million people around the world, it is spoken, apart from bangladesh, in the West Bengal, Assam, Tripura and Bihar in India, and by sizable immigrant communities in Eorupe, USA and the Middle-East. The six languages that come before it are Chinese, English, Hindi-Urdu, Spanish, Arabic and Portuguese. It is the second official language in India, and seventh in the list of most spoken languages in the world. Sherpa-English English-Sherpa Dictionary with Literary Tibetan and Nepali Equivalents, Kathmandu: Vajra Pub, 296 p.Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা) is the national language of Bangladesh. The specificities of Sherpa verb morphology are described in great detail in an appendix of this dictionary. These correspondences, as well as the basic lexicon, clearly show that Sherpa is derived from Old Tibetan and is closely related to Classical Literary Tibetan. It is the first publication to provide information about the phonological correspondences of Literary Tibetan in Sherpa. The SEESD includes a brief description of the Sherpa-speaking area, dialectal variation, and the linguistic affiliation of the language. Sherpa words are presented in a romanization system with a notation of tones.

The SEESD is the only Sherpa dictionary which provides both Tibetan and Nepali equivalents as well as the Tibetan etymology.

''The Sherpa-English and English-Sherpa Dictionary (SEESD) is the product of a very fruitful collaboration between two Sherpa scholars and two European linguists who are specialists in the Tibetic languages.

Sanskrit alphabet with bengali pdf