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Meaning of Middle Bengali | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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