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There is a developed system of tense forms. There are distinctions between animate and inanimate and definite and indefinite, which are reflected in the formation of declensional forms and in the use of definite and demonstrative affixes-that is, particles added to nouns and pronouns. The inflection of substantive nouns and pronouns varies according to case and number, and verb forms change according to tense and person in the indicative and imperative modes.
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Words are formed by means of suffixes and compounds. The leading word is postpositioned in word combinations, as is the auxiliary element in morphological and syntactic formations. The characteristics of the phonetic structure of the Bengali language are vowel harmony, the presence of nasal vowels opposed to nonnasal vowels and aspirated vowels opposed to unaspirated vowels, the doubling of consonants, and the pronunciation of unstressed “o.” The grammatical structure is based on an agglutinative type of word formation and word change, the use of auxiliary words, and reduplication and juxtaposition of grammatical and semantic conjunctive particles. Since the 1947 division of Bengal between India and Pakistan, the Bengali language in East Bengal, which became part of Pakistan, has been marked by a greater use of Arabic and Persian words than the language in the western part of Bengal, which became the Indian state of West Bengal. The period of the formation of basic structural features of the Bengali language was from the late 15th century to the early 17th century, and the period of the emergence of modern Bengali was from the late 18th century to the 19th century. The ancient period of the history of the language in Bengal was the period of the tenth, 11th, and 12th centuries. It is related to the Indo-Aryan group of Indo-European languages and is divided into four dialectical groups: western, eastern, northern, and northeastern. About 100 million people speak Bengali (1967 estimate). It is also spoken in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, and Orissa. The language of the Bengali people, prevalent in the Indian state of West Bengal and in East Pakistan.