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There are many compound letters in Bengali made up of two or more letters . Its not possible to list them all here. You will find it easier to read them from a book like Learn Bengali in 30 days. However lets attempt a few of these.
The next figure contains double letters - ie each sounds the same eg kk in chiKKen ( chicken) , LL in Jill etc. See if you can identify each doubled letter. The last three are not so obvious and so their corresponding letter is written as half size to help you identify them . The answer are at the bottom of the figure.
See if you can read these words using the above doubled letters .
The answers are A . Apple B . Jill C Anna D Chicken E Egg F Yddi ( If - Hindi) G Hajj H Abbot I Eddie J Atta ( flour - Hindi ) K Abrit't'i ( Recitation )
Note how the soft T' as in the word K- Aabrit't'i and the hard T as in Tom in the word J - Atta are made up from the single letters.
Lets look at numbers from 1 to 10 . These are used less and less being replaced by English numbers.
Here are compound letters made of two letters . Note the name of the compound is derived from the half letter at the top and half letter at the bottom - ulkaa meansa a meteor. 
Here are some half letters which are often used to form compound letters of two or even three half letters. See if you can identify them . Some blanks have been filled . We need help in identifying and completing the compound letters below. If you can help please send an email to Ukindia for eg in fig 49h below the first letter would be 1. Short u , look , mulk etc. Please send the answers to all three figures 49h with its 50 letters , 49ia with 20 lettters and 49ja with 33 letters ( some eg 1 and 2 in the first figure, may be repeated) in the next three figures -in each case identifying the letter , then a short English word in which it might occur and a short Bengali word in which it is used. The answers should all be in English letters and should not take an expeienced Bengali reader more than 10 minutes to do. Your help will be acknowledged. With many thanks.
Answers are here given by Sameer (thank you very much Sameer ! ) . Note that some letters above are duplicated but for the moment we will leave it as is and you can use them as practice. Later on we will make some words using these half letters and vowel marks .
# sound location bangla word english
1- u underneath alu potato
2- u underneath same as above
3- u (after r) to the right rush Russia
4- uu underneath puurbaw east
5- uu underneath same as above
6- uu (after r) to the right duruuhaw difficult
or ri (after h) to the right hridoy heart
7- ri underneath mrittu death
8- ri underneath same as above
9- e to the left desh nation
10- e to the left same as above
11- oi to the left moitraw friendship
12- oi to the left same as above
13- ou to the right moushumi monsoon
14- k (before t/r) to the right bækti (bekti) person
15- g on top rarely used
16- ng on top rarely used
17- ch on top achchha O.K.
18- j on top rarely used
19- n' to the right ushn'aw warm
20- n' on top kawn't'awk thorn
21- t underneath bæstaw busy
22- tu underneath kintu but
23- tr underneath strii woman
24- d underneath rarely used
25- dh underneath bouddhaw Buddhist
26- n on top jawnmaw birth
27- n (before # 21) on top antawrjatik international
28- n underneath prawshnaw question
29- n underneath same as above
30- p on top rarely used
31- b underneath ddiip (spelled dbiip) island
32- b underneath same as above
33- b underneath same as above
34- m on top lawmba long
35- m underneath atta (spelled atma) soul
36- æ to the right bæbawhar use
37- r underneath gram village
38- r underneath same as above
39- r underneath same as above
40- r underneath same as above
41- r on top dhawrmaw religion
42- l on top kawlpawna imagination
43- l underneath plabawn flood
44- l underneath same as above
45- sh on top rarely used
46- sh on top srisht'i creation
47- sh on top same as above
48- s on top sthan place
49- s on top same as above
50- punctuation mark that prevents the "aw" sound from coming after a
consonant
The next compound letters next can be used to form more words .
Answers
2 kt 15 tt ( atta)
Here are some more compound letters , see if you can identify them
Answers 10 nn 12 pp( apple) 24 LL More to follow
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