Origin from 1000
An abugida used to write Bengali, Assamese, Meitei (alongside Meitei Mayek), Bishnupriya Manipuri and, historically, Sanskrit texts in eastern India. It developed from the Gaudi script, itself a descendant of Siddham and ultimately Brahmi, taking recognizable shape by around the eleventh century CE and standardizing further under Bengali printing houses from the eighteenth century onward. It is distinguished from the closely related Devanagari mainly by letterform style rather than structure, and Assamese uses the same base script with two letters shaped differently from their Bengali counterparts.
Facts
Directionality In Use Since (Year) Directionality (class) Classification
Script StatusLiving (in Current Use) 1 Classified 'living' per this entity's own cited source and standard scholarly consensus on the script's current use; checked 2026-09-27. Connections
Descends From
Source Wikipedia: Bengali-Assamese Script
Is Of Script Type
Script Of
Assamese is standardly written in the Eastern Nagari (Bengali-Assamese) script.
Source Wikipedia: Bengali-Assamese Script
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Bengali-Assamese Script
- Script Status: Living (in Current Use)
- Script Type: Abugida
- Directionality: left-to-right
- In Use Since (Year): from 1000
- Directionality (class): Left-to-right
View the Source2. Unicode Consortium: ISO 15924 Code Lists, Table 1
Unicode ConsortiumTable 1, row BengQuote, Table 1, row Beng
Beng 325 Bengali (Bangla) bengalî (bangla) Bengali 1.1 2016-12-05
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