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The Bengali-Assamese script (or Eastern Nagari script), commonly known as Bengali script, is a modern eastern script that emerged from the Brahmic script. According to Carmen Brandt the script is known variously as "Eastern Nagari script" in academic discourses; as "Bengali script" among Bengali speakers and globally; and as "Assamese script" among Assamese speakers.Besides Bengali and Assamese it is used to write Bishnupriya Manipuri, Chakma, Meitei (Manipuri), Santali, Sanskrit, Sylheti and other languages. Other languages, such as Angika, Bodo, Karbi, Maithili and Mising were once written in this script. The two major alphabets in this script – Assamese and Bengali – are virtually identical, except for two characters, with Assamese differing from Bengali in one letter for the /r/ sound, and an extra letter for the /w/ or /v/ sound.

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