Meanings
- The ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali.
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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.
1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, Calcutta University Press, page 134
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 中古孟加拉語 /中古孟加拉语
- 中古孟加拉語 /中古孟加拉语Middle Bengali
Cite this entry
Middle Bengali. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Middle%20Bengali
“Middle Bengali.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Middle%20Bengali. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Middle Bengali,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Middle%20Bengali.
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