Benhurst Primary School

Malayalam

Information Information /mʌləˈjɑːləm/ is a language spoken in , predominantly in the state of . It is one of the 22 scheduled and was

Bengalidesignated (also as known a Classical as Bangla) Language is the in officialIndia in 2013. language of Bangladesh and several states in India.

ItNative is commonly speakers ranked: 38 million as one of the top five languages in terms of the number of native Spoken by: speakers. The Bengali language is a member of the

Eastern Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European Language family: , Tamil– language family. It is one of several languages Kannada languages, Malayalam languages, Tamil-

Malayalamdescended languagesfrom the ancient language.

Regulated by: , Academy for Bengali is written in a syllabic that is very different from the English alphabet. There are no uppercase or lowercase forms for Bengali letters. : Malayalam , Malayalam The Bengali language is written from left to right, like English. Another notable aspect of Bengali Native to: India letters is that they all have at least a partial bar at the top, which connects to the other letters in a Region: Kerala, , Puducherry word. Three Bengali letters are shown below as examples.

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River Ganges

 The Ganges river basin has the highest population of any river basin in the world. It contains over 400 million people.  The Ganges River is sacred to Hindus. The river is worshipped by Hindus as the goddess Ganga, and all along its course Hindus bathe in its waters.

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