Products that supply this font Product name License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations.Portions copyright © 1999, Monotype Typography Ltd. John Hudson & Fiona Ross (based on Monotype Devanagari and Bembo, thoroughly revised and extended.Ĭopyright © 2015, Microsoft Corporation. The Latin character set supports Microsoft codepage 1252 (Latin 1) plus a large set of diacritics for transliterating not just Sanskrit but also other Indian languages. This is based on Monotype's famous Bembo type, inspired by 15th Century Venetian models, but has also been thoroughly redrawn to harmonize in weight and proportion with the Devanagari. The Sanskrit Text Devanagari is accompanied in the font by a companion Latin design. This means that the Sanskrit Text font may be used for literary, scientific, and also religious Sanskrit texts. These characters are essential for correct representation of the various early Hindu religious texts known collectively as the Vedas. Sanskrit Text is one of the first fonts to incorporate support for the Unicode encoding of Vedic symbols and marks. The glyph set specification was prepared with advice from Anshuman Pandey, and is based on both existing catalogues as well as new analysis of specific Vedic and literary texts. Letter shapes have been made more stylistically and proportionally consistent, and the glyph set supports more than 680 consonant conjunct sequences attested in Sanskrit texts. The design of Sanskrit Text is based on Monotype Devanagari, a type initially manufactured for hot metal typesetting technologies back in 1930s, but has been thoroughly revised and expanded by John Hudson and Fiona Ross (Tiro Typeworks). Don't forget to bookmark this page.Sanskrit Text is Devanagari font specially targeting the typesetting of Sanskrit texts in a traditional style. To learn other languages please check our homepage here: Learn Languages. We hope the lessons above helped you learn Bengali. The script originated form a variety of the Sanskrit Devanagari alphabet, assuming its own characteristics in the 11th century. The Bengali script, in its present printed form, took shape in 1778.
The difference between the two is not very sharp, however. The former is the traditional literary style based on Middle Bengali of the 16th century, the latter is a creation of this century, based on the cultivated form of the dialect spoken in Calcutta by educated people. One is called "Sadhubhasa" (elegant language) and the other "Chaltibhasa" (current language). Only five other languages in the world can claim as many as 190 million speakers. The number of speakers exceeds 190 million including second language users. Bengali belongs to the Indo-European family, Indic group, and is spoken by over 120 million people in Bangladesh and over 68 million in India, in the province known as West Bengal.
0 kommentar(er)
