This page describes the history of bengali language , not the script . For that, see here . Some examples of old bengali can be found here . Bengali is a language of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Its Indo-European roots can be traced to the initial split in middle Indo Aryan languages into a NW dialect which grew into Gandhari, the central dialect which grew into Sauraseni, an eastern dialect which became Magadhi and a Southern dialect which lead to, for example, Maharashtri. Bengali probably arose out of the Magadhi or Ardhamagadhi prakrts, through mAgadhI apabhraMza. Its earliest examples are the caryagItis . (A slightly different view claims that the origins of Punjabi, Hindi, and Rajasthani actually share a distinct origin than the rest of the indo-aryan languages.) However, Bengal was not always indo-european. (See the description of aryanization of bengal for related information.) This group of languages are first attested in India in t
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