Why does Bengali sound so sweet? 

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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.🙏🙏

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.

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

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

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 🇧🇩

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

I saw two Bengali fighting. It felt like they are long lost brother showing their affection to each other. 😂

I wonder how much study had to be done just to make this video. How accurately this dude pronounced 'Boshonto' even though he isn't Bengali! take my respect man🖤🇧🇩

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

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 ❤

I love Bengali, Bangladeshi national anthem "Amar Shonar Bangla" sounds sweet and lovely to me. I wish i could learn the language one day 😍.

Finally someone who acknowledges and appreciates the contribution of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ❤️

Bengali is so versatile, that after being a 'sweet' language, it has a well established rock/metal genre in its music industry.

I am a Bengali and this is the greatest sociolinguistic exploration of my language on RU-vid. I am truly grateful.

" আমার ভাই এর রক্তে রাঙানো একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি " শ্রদ্ধা সেই ভাষা শহীদদের প্রতি যাদের জন্য বাংলা এখন সারা পৃথিবীর কাছে পরিচিত।

I am taking a pause to appreciate your Bengali pronunciations when you don’t speak that language. Nailed it.

I'm not a Bengali guy but I'm in love with the Bengali language and culture unconditionally ❤️

I am a Tamilian and I love Bangla a lot.

As a Bangali, I admit that I have no idea why non-Bengalis find Bangla sweet. For me, I always found Bangla to be Royal, sophisticated, and sometimes even intimidating which was probably developed by upper-class Bengalis and has now transcended to middle-class people like me. I always found my grandmother's style of Bangla extremely intimidating when she use to talk to my mom and dad even though she was just having a normal conversation.

This is the best thing about India. You have so many options to love and appreciate. Bengal, malayalam, tamizh, telugu, kanada, odiya, hindi, etc.....

Idk about the language but I'm in love with the male voice....he's making the language more sweeter 💜

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.

"বাংলা আমার তৃষ্ণার জল, তৃপ্ত শেষ চুমুক আমি একবার দেখি বার বার দেখি, দেখি বাংলার মুখ।" ❤️❤️❤️

প্রথম থেকে শেষ অব্দি আমার মুখে শুধু হাসিই ছিল... 😊সত্যি ,বাংলা ভাষার মধ্যে আলাদাই একটা অনুভূতি রয়েছে...🙃 আমি গর্বিত আমি বাঙালি... আমি আমার বাংলাকে খুব ভালোবাসি... 🤗বাংলা ভাষা, বাঙালি খাবার, বাংলার গান, বাংলার মানুষ, বাংলার আচার অনুষ্ঠান, ঐতিহ্য আরও অনেক কিছু ....😍 অনেক ভালোবাসা রইলো ....❤️❤️❤️❤️ From - West Bengal

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.❤

"Why does Bengali sounds so sweet?" Probably because Bengalis are sweet, like their sweets ^^

Being a bangali---😂😂 I have never thought like this 😊 Proud to be a বাঙালি

Fact:⟩ there are some differences between West Bengal's Bengali and Bangladesh's Bengali. Most of Bengalis from West Bengal speaks 'Rarhi dialect’ and the Bengalis from Bangladesh and tripura speaks ‘Bongali dialect’... But, both Bengali are very sweet ♥️ Edit» thank you very much guys 🤗....for likes ❤️

Bengali is the only language that came from fresh blood sacrifice of 1952. ✊ I am proud as a Bengali.💞🇧🇩

মহারাষ্ট্র থেকে বাংলা ভালবাসি 🥰🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🤩🤩

Only seeing the caption, my heart is melted as I'm a Bengali 😍😍 আমি আমার বাংলা ভাষাকে অনেক ভালোবাসি 💖💖💖

Blood and lives were sacrificed to protect this beautiful language in 1952.

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

Chittagong’s Bangla is closely related to Barma's language. Sylhet’s Bangla is closely related to Assamese language. Language flows like river and changes it’s forms like river banks.

Being a Bengali from West Bengal, India ♥️ I can't wait 🥰😍

He doesn't speak bengali, but he almost nailed the pronunciation! His voice also sounds like that of a Bengali! As a Bengali, or should I say Bangali, I am so proud he made a video with this much detail of the Bengali language, where some of it I didn't even know! Thank you!

Videos like this makes me so proud of my mother language and culture❤ from Bengal... I ❤ Bangla & India🇮🇳 ❤❤❤❤

I'm guessing it'll mostly be attributed to the rounded vowel অ and the "sh" sound. Excited!

মোদের গর্ব, মোদের আশা, আ মরি বাংলা ভাষা! তোমার কোলে, তোমার বোলে, কতই শান্তি ভালবাসা!🥰

I live in Punjab and I can speak Hindi and Punjabi fluently but i always loved Bangali since I was a child and now I'm trying to learn Bangali

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।

I am literally crying.... Nothing to be more proud to be a bengali. In the era of learning English.. Bengalis are forgetting their own language and culture.

Honestly as a Bengali myself, often end up speaking pure bangla without uttering any English or any foreign word, just to enjoy how melodious I sound

Bengali is also considered as the world's most sweetest language ❤️😌 Proud to be Bengali.☺️ Lots of love from West Bengal ❤️

আমি বাংলাদেশী I am from Bangladesh And we Bangladeshis are proud that we gave life for mother tongue 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

None bangalis: let's see why bengali language is so sweet Me as a bangali: let's see why our language is so sweet 〰️

Are u Bengali?? I confused how you can speak so fluent bengali and never thought anyone would make video on this topic....Thank U Dada for this video and lots of love from West Bengal, India❤🇮🇳🇮🇳

Well...as a Bengali, I must say, ড় and ঢ় do still have their actual sound in Bengali,but some people now a days seem not to pronounce them properly(even 'educated' people,in fact,them the most). If you listen to old Bengali songs, you will find the ঢ় and ড় there, existing in their actual form. In a flow, it's a bit softer than the actual sound,but definately not like র।

Being a Bengali it's overwhelming to see someone pronounced Bengali words perfectly!!!❤

Bengali Relationship Be Like Men : " এই শোনো " Women : " ওগো শুনছো "

One of my non bengali friend said that I sound sweeter and more gentle when I was talking in bengali and more mature when I speak hindi Lots of love to you for this beautiful video.

As a native Bengali, I must admit that not only is your research impressive but I also learnt a lot about our language from this video. Thank you. Subscribed!

As an Bangali from Bangladesh, I'm really proud of being Bangali.ভালোবাসি বাংলাকে, ভালোবাসি বাংলাদেশকে💜💜🇧🇩🇧🇩

I am a Marathi girl and I personally feel that the Bengali language is soft and tender. Thanks for the wonderful content.

Bengali and Assamese are similar So I understand what they talk.🙏🏻 Love FROM Assam ❤️

Loved the way you portrayed Bengali language.. From 🇧🇩

The amount of research you have done for this video is commendable!!...got to learn so much about my own language!.... thanks ❤

Your pronounce 'Boshonto' was so accurate just love the pronounce

The whole video I thought that he is definitely a Bengali, because he has pronounced some words exactly the same way we do. And this is also the point which he tried to make, that its one of the easiest languages of India to adopt.

"I don't speak bengali, and probably you don't as well" Me, a bengali, *watching* :😐

Brilliant video mate! As a native Bengali speaker, I haven’t seen any content anywhere that discusses the nuances of Bengali letters with such clarity and details. One minor thing which could be added to this video is that we do not have the Z sound in Bengali. We approximate the Z sound with J sound which are represented by য and জ. Z sound is an acquired sound by the “educated” class or people who have had access to schools where teachers actually know how to pronounce the letter Z correctly. People are often judged/made fun of for pronouncing Z sounds like J.

I'm a Bengali speaker. So trust me on this. Bengali is not "The Sweetest Language Announced by UN". I think every language is sweetest in its own way. So, Bengali is one of the sweetest languages. The only thing I'm proud of being a Bengali speaker that in past some of the Bengali speakers fought against language imposition and advocated for right to choose one's own language/mother tongue. It gave people all around the world the courage to stand up for one's own language/mother tongue. P.S.- Whoever is reading this, I guarantee you that your mother tongue is one of the sweetest languages. 😍❤️😍❤️ Spread love ❤️

That's why we Bangladeshis fought for this language 1952 against Pakistan, 21 February, and it is the international mother language day ❤️

You voice makes all languages sweeter (assured by a Bengali)

Brilliant, as a Bengali and a linguist, your facts and explanations are absolutely on point❤ amazing work.....that country needs more youtubers like you....who make content worth watching...... brilliant again....truly remarkable ❤

Each and every language is sweet.....for the native speakers.

Two things missing here - Bengali has a “aw” sound (sounds like English “saw”, “law” etc). Such as “Aditi” sounds like “Awditi”, “Amal” sounds like “Awmol”. Secondly, we don’t have gender differences in verbs and pronouns. Such as we don’t have “Karega” or “karegi “ based on male/female gender. We always have same - “korbo”.

Just found out Jana Gana Mana (Indian National Anthem), was actually composed in Bengali language as 'Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata' by Rabindranath Tagore. Bengali is not only sweet but also the easiest to learn among other Indian languages (mostly bcoz of absence of gender identification for subject/object).

I guess I was in love with bengali culture after watching Balika Vadhu movie. So beautifully presented video. Love from Nepal❤

When you learn Rabindra sangeet these differences of long and short sound pronunciation is taught distinctively, the songs are also composed in that way.

West Bengal is going through Hindification especially in Kolkata. We must strive to save our language and ethnicity. My message is not anti India or anything its just about saving an Indian culture

Man I loved to see when people give logic and information in this harsh and emotionally frustrated World. Loved it . Love from a bengali ❤️

আমি তোমাকে ভালোবাসি is the sweetest line to express your feelings to your loved ones ...তাই আমি বাংলাকে খুব ভালোবাসি।

My 🇱🇰 first name in Hindi almost always gets pronounced as Kanish, as Kanishkaa is mostly a female name in India but whenever Bengalis see it they go Konishko, which sounds like a natural male term. My Sinhalese last name Wijesekara is pronounced Bijoyshekor which I guess India in Pixels will talk about in another video!

It feels so sweet and comes from heart because we had to fight for it ✊🇧🇩

Rabindranath Tagore ❌ Robindronath Thakur ✔️

Proud to be a Bengali .. We fought for our language 🥰..Love from BANGLADESH.........

Beautifully made video! Just one slight correction, Bangla does have the ঢ sound though, much more similar to ढ than र. Take for example the capital city of Bangladesh, ঢাকা -> ढाका. I would also argue for pedagogy's sake that the Bengali ঢ় (ḍhô-e shunyô ṛhô), similar to the Hindi ढ़, tends to often be pronounced more like it should be, i.e., with the prominent voiced retroflex flap, compared to the other similar sounds র (र in Hindi) and ড় (ड़ in Hindi). An illustration, for example, would be the word রাঢ়ী (Rāṛhī), used for the standard Nadia dialect of Bangla, spoken in most of urban West Bengal as well as in the Kushtia region of Western Bangladesh. But this distinction tends to vary with the geographical regions of Bengal, i.e., Western Bangalis tend to make this distinction slightly more overtly as compared to Eastern Bangalis, and this distinction, as you said, is subjective like most topics in linguistics! Superb video once again, coming from a native speaker! ❤️

You already won hearts of Bengal just by admitting rosogolla. Awesome insight. ❤️❤️

Love from Maharashtra 🇮🇳❤️

I am Tamil.. And my wife is Bengali.. We live in Bengaluru

A small correction: The Bengali schwa isn't limited to just the "o" sound. It can also be the "aw" sound. While words like "onto" use the o sound, words like "hobe" uses the aw sound. So you pronounce is as hawbe, aka "abar dekha hawbe" and not "abar dekha hobe". Hope this helps :) good content.

সত্যি যখন কেউ বাংলা ভাষা নিয়ে কোনো টপিক কভার করে তখন সত্যিই একজন বাঙালি হিসেবে অনেক গর্ব বোধ হয়।।💝🥰

I am from Nadia and the pronounciation of Bengali language is authentic here💜

Your voice is also very sweet and soothing to my ears...hope you figure out why and make a video on it. Great job!

Being a Odia, I know that there are so much similarities between Odia, Bengali and Assamese as they originate from common language Magadhi but Odia has much similarity with Sanskrit.

As a Bangladeshi . thank you for your analysing bengali/bangla language.💞🇧🇩

I am a Bengali too and speak in Chittagoian dialect. So sweet and faster in expressing feelings. I am proud. Bengali....is the only language in the earth for which people fought and sacrificed their lives. Request to listen all of you some Chittagonian songs by Shyam Shundar Baishnav & Shefali Ghosh..the pastoral songs...so sweet.

I love bengalis,their culture,their language and specially their music...

1:15 I love to see Chittagonian Dialect. I know it is the hardest dialect in Bangladesh that only people from Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Teknaf can understand, but still seeing it here makes me proud. (Though being Chittagonian, I am not fluent in this dialect ☹) Thank you for this amazing video, even I learned a lot about my language, Bangla.

I'm from Bangladesh but currently living in Germany for sometime. Your video was really informative. Being a Bengali I never thought this deeply why we sound like this. Many of you may know German has very harsh pronunciations, mostly sounds "Unfriendly", for those who are not used to it. No offence. Most Germans you will find are very professional, honest and helpful. When I speak German to German natives, sometimes I have to say things twice, because my accent is not "Harsh enough". German has lots of "sch", deep "rrr", different "u" and "o" (so called umlauts) sound that I will always struggle to pronounce.

As bengali it melt my heart how you care about bangal

As a Bangali I must say that your analysis is wonderful. And I must also admit that your Bengali pronunciation is surprisingly good!

Any video about bengali culture or language brings a wide smile on my face ❤️... Living with non-bengalis for sometimes now, tired of the constant leg pulling regarding "jol khabo", "cha khabo"... But... আমার সোনার বাংলা, আমি তোমায় ভালোবাসি ❤️