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Early texts on Bengali include R.D. Banerji, The Origin of the Bengali Script (1919, reissued 2003); Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Bengali Self-Taught (1927, reissued 1991), and The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, 2 vol. (1926; reprinted with a supplementary volume, 1970–72). Also useful is Punya Sloka Ray, Muhammad Abdul Hai, and Lila Ray, Bengali Language Handbook (1966).

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Invalidated site: ODU Digital Commons - An Analytical Review of Preprocessing Techniques in Bengali Natural Language Processing (PDF). Sep 23, 2026
Add new Web site: ODU Digital Commons - An Analytical Review of Preprocessing Techniques in Bengali Natural Language Processing (PDF). Dec 30, 2025
Add new Web site: ISI Digital Commons - A novel approach to word sense disambiguation in Bengali language using supervised methodology (PDF). Aug 30, 2025
Add new Web site: ODU Digital Commons - An Analytical Review of Preprocessing Techniques in Bengali Natural Language Processing (PDF). Mar 29, 2025
Add new Web site: Internet Archive - The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language. Aug 18, 2023
Add new Web site: IndiaNetzone - Bengali Language. Jun 23, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The Future of Bengali Language. Nov 05, 2022
Add new Web site: Omniglot - Bengali. Aug 29, 2022
Article revised and updated. Jun 24, 2009
New bibliography added. Jun 24, 2009
Added new Web site: Bangla - The Official Language of Bangladesh. Oct 20, 2006
Added new Web site: Bangla - The Official Language of Bangladesh. Oct 20, 2006
Added new Web site: IndiaNetzone - West Bengal, India. Jun 20, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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