Bengali

The vernacular dialect of the province of Bengal, British India; it is derived from Sanskrit , and written in characters modified from the Diva nagari alphabet. See Carey’s “Dict. of the Bengalee Language,” ., 2 vols., Serampore, 1825; Yates’s “Introd. to Bengali,” Calcutta, 1847. Beni , Benin , or Bini . A general name for the native dialects, vernacular in the Bight of Benin, W. Africa. Applied more particularly to the Moko . Other dialects are the Bonny , the Ibo , and Aro . See Clarke’s “Dialects of Africa,” p. 35. Beni Mena er , see under M.