The Bengali script evolved around 1200 AD. It came from the ‘Brahmi script’, which evolved from the Old Indo-Arya language of the third century. Throughout the century it mixed with different scripts and from around 1200 AD to 1400 AD it got a distinct shape of Bengali script.
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