The redundancy stems from the time when this script was used to write Sanskrit, a language that had short and long vowels: ' ই' i ( হ্রস্ব ই rôshshô i, 'short i') /i/ and ' ঈ' ī ( দীর্ঘ ঈ dirghô ī, 'long ī') /iː/, and ' উ' u ( হ্রস্ব উ rôshshô u) /u/ and ' ঊ' ū ( দীর্ঘ ঊ dirghô ū) /uː/.

There are two graphemes for the vowel sound and two graphemes for the vowel sound.

As a result, the sound is orthographically realised by multiple means in modern Bengali orthography, usually using some combination of ' এ' e ( স্বর এ shôrô e, 'vocalic e') /e/, ' অ', ' আ' a ( স্বর আ shôrô a) /a/ and the যফলা jôfôla (diacritic form of the consonant grapheme য jô).

Even though the open-mid front unrounded vowel /ɛ/ is one of the seven main vowel sounds in the standard Bengali language, no distinct vowel symbol has been allotted for it in the script since there is no /ɛ/ sound in Sanskrit, the primary written language when the script was conceived.

Bengali, Assamese and Odia which are Eastern languages have this value for the inherent vowel, while other languages using Brahmic scripts have a for their inherent vowel.

' অ' ô ( স্বর অ shôrô ô, 'vocalic ô') /ɔ/ sounds as the default Inherent vowel for the entire Bengali script.

All of them are used in both Bengali and Assamese languages. The swôrôbôrnôs represent six of the seven main vowel sounds of Bengali, along with two vowel diphthongs.

The Bengali script has a total of 9 vowel graphemes, each of which is called a স্বরবর্ণ swôrôbôrnô 'vowel letter'. Vowels & Consonant are used as alphabet and also diacritical marks. The Bengali script can be divided into vowels and vowel diacritics/marks, consonants and consonant conjuncts, diacritical and other symbols, digits, and punctuation marks. 1.8 Characteristics of the Bengali text.

Two letter words in bengali