A Grammar of the Bengal Language

{{short description|1778 grammar book by Nathaniel Braasey Halhed}}

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| author = Nathaniel Brassey Halhed

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| country = Bengal Presidency

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| subject = Bengali grammar

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| published = 1778

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| pages = 217 (first edition)

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| preceded_by = A Code of Gentoo Laws (1776)

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A Grammar of the Bengal Language is a 1778 modern Bengali grammar book written in English by Nathaniel Brassey Halhed.{{Cite Banglapedia|article=Halhed,_Nathaniel_Brassey|author=MA Qayyum}} This is the first grammar book of the Bengali language.{{cite news |author=Muhammad Shafiq Hussain |date=February 18, 2007 |title=The Birth of Bengali language |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/campus/2007/02/03/camspotlight_bangla.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=May 4, 2016}}{{cite web|title=History of Bengali language|url=http://www.bengalitranslation.net/bengali.html|access-date=July 6, 2014|publisher=bengalitranslation.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821171446/http://www.bengalitranslation.net/bengali.html|archive-date=2014-08-21|url-status=dead}} The book, published in 1778, was probably printed from the Endorse Press in Hooghly, Bengal Presidency.{{cite book |author=Ghulam Moinuddin |title=Boi |trans-title=Book |publication-date=December 1985 |publisher=Bangla Academy |language=bn |isbn=984-07-2928-4 |page=16 |chapter=Bengali Books: Early publication}}