Why does Bengali sound so sweet?

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"Bengali is a sweet language" is almost a cliché. Beyond rumored UNESCO surveys declaring it to be the sweetest language, are there real facts grounded in linguistics that might explain why the language feels the way it does?

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Me: A pure Bangali
Also me: let's watch why our language is so sweet!

guywithafunnymustache
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Even 'O' is so sweet that 'O' is used to call soulmate "Ogo sunchho" 😀😀

newton
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I am a bengali and I love bengali. In 1952 we fought for out language. We have sacrificed a lot of lives for our language. I am proud to be a bengali

panthosarkar
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I am an Indian, international student in UK and my house share in UK have 6 people from 6 different locations of India. The bengali boy while talking to his girlfriend over phone sounds the sweetest amongst all of us.

johnmax
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I am a Bengali and I learnt so much new info about my mother tongue...thankyou for such an insightful video

Debleena
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According to Google, Bangla is the most sweetest language in the world.. and the first language people died for protecting.. so UNESCO declared 21 Feb international mother language day..

isratjahanprova
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Bengali is such a sweet language..I'm learning it... I'm from Uttar Pradesh

AhmadRaza-jfvj
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I am a Bengali and this is the greatest sociolinguistic exploration of my language on YouTube. I am truly grateful.

orcobanerjee
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Are we not going to talk about how sweet is this person's voice.
Id say I was shocked to see such a soft spoken person

arani
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Whenever he say "WHY BENGALI IS SWEET" i am blushing continuesly 😳

srtfuly
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I'm also Bengali but live in Mumbai. I used to make fun of those Bengalis who couldn't speak Hindi well because of Bengali pronounciation but after watching this video now I also feel proud to be a Bengali ❤

Shah-
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I am a Tamilian and I love Bangla a lot.

taruntac
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The fact that he doesn't even speak bengali but spoke bengali so beautifully is amazing💖💖💞💞💕💓💓💕

tanoymajumder
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In 1952, a few Bangladeshi young men dedicated their life for recognition for the "Bengali language " as state language.
We bleed for this language. Proud to be a Bengali 🇧🇩

zebaraisa
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Being an immigrant to a western country, I got interested in the origin of Bangla only after I started to teach my children. Thank you so much for this video - it gave me answers to questions I didn't even think to ask.

ansaz
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I am a bengali. Thank you for the video. The comments (most of them) are also heartwarming. I have respect and love to all other languages. Love the content

debajyotikuilya
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Being a Punjabi, I found bengali to be so sweet that I ended up learning it.বাংলা পৃথিবীর সবচেয়ে মধুর ভাষা❤❤

P.S I don't know why Bengalis are thanking me in the comments. Its us rest of the Indians whi should in fact be grateful to bengalis for producing mystics like Ramakrishna, poets like Tagore, thinkers like Aurobindo, scientists like Jagdish Chandra, leaders like Bose.🙏🙏

manindersandhu
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I'm a bengali girl...and i'm from Kolkata...really appreciate how this video have shown our culture and language!!🌼❤️

srishaacharya
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As a proud Bengali, I absolutely love this video! Your sincere admiration and respect for our language is very clearly palpable, and I think you did an amazing job.

However, I do want to clarify one minor mistake on the topic of schwa and schwa retention in Bengali. Firstly, the actual sound of the schwa is more accurately represented by a shorter version of English “aw, ” somewhat akin to Devanagari “औ, ” at least as I know it to be pronounced in standard Hindi. It can sometimes be pronounced as /o/ (as in “toe” or “हो”), but this is a phonological phenomenon that diverts from the norm. For example, “ধর্ম” (Devanagari: “धर्म”) is pronounced roughly like “dhôrmo” (Devanagari: “धौर्मो”) where “ô” represents the “aw” sound. This word also has a schwa at the end, and this time it is pronounced as /o/ because we Bengalis don’t like to have multiple syllables with the standard schwa sound in direct succession.

This leads me to the other thing, which is that while Bengali does practice schwa retention, it doesn’t always retain the schwa. Consider the very simple second person singular pronoun: “আপনি” (Devanagari: आपनि). This literally reads out “āpôni, ” (Devanagari: “आपौनी”) but is nonetheless pronounced in reality like “āpni” (Devanagari: “आप्नी”). As another example, the word “पथ” (Devanagari: “पथ”) was transliterated as “potho” in the video, when in actuality it is pronounced as “pôth” (Devanagari: पौथ्), with the same schwa deletion at the end of the word as you find in a language like Hindi.

In a nutshell, schwa deletion is an inconsistent mess in Bengali, and you need to just know when to and when not to delete it in Bengali, though there is some level of intuition that you can build to help guide you. Once again, amazing video! অনেক ধন্যবাদ এবং জয় বাংলা।

alahiri
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Love from 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Proud to be Bengali.
And one thing... We faught for our language in 1952.
That's why 21st February is the International mother language day.❤

arifthecrazyboy