ড় (ɽ) – This is pronounced with the tongue further back than র.

র ® – This is pronounced similar to a Spanish “r,” in between an English “r” and “l.”.

ণ (n or ɳ) – This is historically a retroflex “n” sound, but it is almost always pronounced the same as the dental ন (n) below.

Try pronouncing a “d” sound with your tongue curled back.

ড (ɖ) – This is a retroflex “d” sound.

ঠ (ʈh) – This is an aspirated ট, not the English “th” sound.

This sound does not have an English equivalent, but try pronouncing a “t” sound with your tongue curled back.

ট (ʈ) – This is a retroflex “t” sound.

ঞ (ñ) – This is often pronounced similar to a nasally “ny” sound (like in “canyon”) in English.

য (j) – This is pronounced the same as জ.

জ (j) – Similar to the English “j” as in “joy.” Some Bengali dialects will pronounce this as a “z” instead.ছ (chh) – This is an aspirated চ, like the “ch” in “chair.”.চ (ch) – This one is unaspirated, like the “ch” in “beach.”.হ (h) – Similar to the English “h” as in “hot.” Palatal Consonants.ঙ (ng) – This is like the “ng” in “sing” in English.গ (g) – Similar to the English “g” as in “go.”.ক (k) – Similar to the English “k” as in “bake.”.Here is an overview of the Bengali consonants: Guttural Consonants If a vowel is not attached to a consonant, the consonant may be pronounced with an inherent “ɔ” sound (similar as to the “o” in English “on”). In the romanization, consonants without an “h” are usually unaspirated. Unaspirated, pronounced without a puff of air.Aspirated, which means they are pronounced with a puff of air.Dental (made with the tongue touching the back of your top teeth).Retroflex (made with your tongue curled back).Palatal (made with your tongue touching the roof of your mouth).Gutteral (made in the back of your throat).

For example, chh is छ in Devanagari, but ছ in Bengali. In addition, many letters don’t look similar at all. For example, the letter m in Devanagari is written as म, but in Bengali it is ম. The trick is to look beneath the matra: Devanagari is often blockier, while Bengali is wavier. You might think those two alphabets are the same, but there are many differences, like those between the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets. It is similar to Devanagari, the script used in Hindi and Nepali, because a horizontal line called a matra (মাত্রা) connects letters together into one word. Like Thai and Hindi, it is a Brahmic script. The Bengali alphabet, also known as the Bangla alphabet and the Bengali-Assamese alphabet, is used to write Bengali, Assamese, and sometimes Sanskrit. With Practice, Reading and Writing in Bengali Is Easy! What Is the Bengali Alphabet?.Most Common Consonant Clusters in Bengali.Consonant Clusters in the Bengali Alphabet.How to Read Consonants without Vowel Marks.

Bengali alphabet worksheet