- Sadhu bhasa
"Sadhu Bhasa" is a literary variation of
Bengali language . It remained as a form only to be used in written form unlike theChalit bhasa or the colloquial form.History
This highly
sanskrit ised form of Bengali is notable for its variations in verb forms and the vocabulary which is mainly comprised ofSanskrit words ortatshama words. It was plainly an artificial vocabulary made for the necessity of the literary works at that time. NotablyIswar Chandra Vidyasagar standardised the alphabets and paved the path for literary works. The colloquial usage of Bengali had a vast amount of Persian and Arabic words embedded into the vocabulary, as a result theSanskrit pundits chose the path of sanskritisation to make a "pure" language which is not to be used in day to day conversation but will be used as a modern representative of classical languages into what the works of Sanskrit literature can be translated.The development of Sadhu bhasa and
Chalit bhasa were more or less a parallel development. By the timeVidyasagar ,Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay are creating the ground work for Sadhu bhasa,Kaliprasanna Singha ,Peary Chand Mitra and others are realising the strength of the chalit bhasa.By the time of
Rabindranath Tagore the sadhu (pure) part of Sadhu bhasa has waned into just a set of verb forms. And in a decade or two he himself would choose Chalit bhasa as a literary form of Bengali.ee also
* Bengali
*Chalit bhasa
*Alaler Gharer Dulal References
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