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Musa writes Bengali in the Akshara gait, in which vowels are written attached below the previous consonant, and words are united by a midline. The presentation here is based on the Standard Colloquial Bengali of Kolkata. If stops are pronounced as fricatives, or if murmured voice is pronounced as a tone, then Musa can and should write it. Nadia or Choltibhasha), Bangal (Dhaka), Chittagong or even Shadhubhasha. But Musa can write several different standards of Bengali, for example West Bengali (e.g. When writing Bengali in Musa, as with all writing, we write to a standard, even though all of us speak slightly differently. In addition, like many languages with lots of speakers, there is considerable dialectical variation.

Conversely, several letters are used for multiple sounds.

There are several letters inherited from the common Indo-Aryan stock (represented by Sanskrit) that represent sounds that don't exist in modern Bengali, or whose sounds have merged so that one sound may be spelled with multiple letters.

Several non-native sounds, for example f s z, have entered Bengali, but there are no letters for them.

There is no letter for one of the main vowel sounds, the one romanized as æ.

There are separate letters for long and short vowels, even though the spoken language doesn't distinguish vowel length.

Like many languages with venerable literary traditions, the Bengali script has not kept pace with changes in the language over the last millennium.