Bengali Wikipedia
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The Bengali Wikipedia is the Bengali language
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, it has a phonetic Latin alphabet to Bengali script
tool so Latin alphabet keyboards can be used to type Bengali without downloading any software.
Bengali Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles in October 2006, becoming the second South-Asian language to do so
As of November 13, 2009, it had over 20,500 articles and was the 67th largest Wikipedia by article count.
, it has over 22,000 articles and is the 76th largest Wikipedia by article count.
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...
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Hindi Wikipedia
Hindi Wikipedia is the Hindi language edition of Wikipedia. It was launched in July 2003. As of September 5, 2011 it had 100,000 articles. In July 2010, Google announced that they had begun working with Hindi Wikipedians to translate English language articles into Hindi and had so far translated...
, it has a phonetic Latin alphabet to Bengali script
Bengali script
The Bengali alphabet is the writing system for the Bengali language. The script with variations is used for Assamese and is basis for Meitei, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Kokborok, Garo and Mundari alphabets. All these languages are spoken in the eastern region of South Asia. Historically, the script has...
tool so Latin alphabet keyboards can be used to type Bengali without downloading any software.
Bengali Wikipedia crossed 10,000 articles in October 2006, becoming the second South-Asian language to do so
As of November 13, 2009, it had over 20,500 articles and was the 67th largest Wikipedia by article count.
, it has over 22,000 articles and is the 76th largest Wikipedia by article count.