Middle Bengali en · PROPN
Meanings
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The ancestor of New Bengali, spoken from 1200 CE to 1800, that developed from Old Bengali.
Literary Bengali of prose, during the greater part of the 19th century, was thus a doubly artificial language; and, with its forms belonging to Middle Bengali, and its vocabulary highly Sanskritised, it could only be compared to a ‘Modern English’ with a Chaucerian grammar and a super-Johnsonian vocabulary, if such a thing could be conceived.
1926, Suniti Kumar Chatterji, The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, Calcutta University Press, page 134:
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cmn 中古孟加拉語 /中古孟加拉语 (Middle Bengali)