Bengali Script

Eastern Nagari script shared by Bengali and Assamese, with its distinctive looping headline.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Grew out of the Brahmi line through the Siddam and Proto-Bengali scripts.
• Its matra, the horizontal headstroke, joins letters into the flowing shapes printers call "hanging".
• Now the fifth most used writing system in the world.

Specifications & Metrics

• TYPE: Abugida