Middle Bengali

Proper noun

The ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali.

Japanese Meaning

旧ベンガル語から発展し、1200年から1800年に話された新ベンガル語の先祖として位置づけられる、中期のベンガル語

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Scholars studying historical phonology often examine Middle Bengali manuscripts to trace changes from Old Bengali to Modern Bengali.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

歴史音韻論を研究する学者たちは、古ベンガル語から発展し、紀元約1200年から1800年にかけて話され、近代ベンガル語の祖先となったベンガル語の段階の写本を調べて、言語変化をたどることが多い。

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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 vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.

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