English Dictionary

Middle Bengali

name

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

Middle Bengali is the ancestor of New Bengali.

意味（1）

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.