Middle Bengali

English Dobhashi Proper noun Middle Bengali The ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali. en New Indo-Aryan en w:Suniti Kumar Chatterji The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language Calcutta University Press 1926 134 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. Translations Middle Bengali Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 中古孟加拉語 en retronyms en Languages