Bengali Translation Agency in the UK

Details of the Bengali translation services provided by professional Bengali translators based in the United Kingdom via Translator UK.

If you are looking for a professional Bengali translation agency, then you have come to the right place. Translator UK has been working with many of the United Kingdom's best Bengali translators since 2010.

As a professional Bengali translation agency in the United Kingdom, we are able to hand-pick the most qualified Bengali translators for your translation project, which means that we can offer you the lowest price for the best Bengali translation possible.

We also provide a free quotation for all of our Bengali translations; therefore, you can compare the costs of our services against our competitors quickly and without commitment.

Common Bengali Translation Services offered by Translator UK

Our team of experienced Bengali translators will work with you to deliver whatever type of translation you require.

Below you will find a list of the most common services our Bengali translators offer in the United Kingdom and throughout the world; Should you require any other type of translation service typically provided by a Bengali translation agency in the United Kingdom, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Bengali Translation Agency Reviews

In the past year, Translator UK has been working with many clients providing Bengali translation services and we have received 2 reviews across various review-channels for the Bengali translator's work. As of the 1st of Nov, 2024, the overall rating for our Bengali translation services was 4.7 out of 5 stars. If you have used our Bengali translation services and would like to leave a review for other would-be clients to see, please see: Review Translator UK.

Bengali Translators Qualifications

All of our Bengali translators have been thoroughly vetted and have at a bare minimum the following qualifications:

Bengali Translator Jobs

If you are a qualified Bengali translator that has a university degree in translation and are not yet registered with us, we would be delighted to hear from you. Simply email your CV and references to translatorcv@translatoruk.co.uk and our HR department will be in touch with you shortly thereafter.

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More about the Bengali Language

History of Bengali

The Bengali language, also known as Bangla, is currently the official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshi people speaking it as their main language. It is also officially recognised in Northern India. Indian Bengali does have some variations in the use of grammar, verb forms and structure of sentences so it is vital to differentiate between dialects when choosing a translator. Bengali is the sixth most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world.

The Bengali language can be traced all the way back to 3500 BC. Old Bengali dates to when priests and educators used Sanskrit in the region of Bengal, and what we call Modern Bengali started around the 1760s. Much of the language consists of the same vocabulary as surrounding languages.

In Modern Bengali we can observe that more than half of the Bengali vocabulary is made up of native words, which means they are naturally modified Sanskrit words and also words influenced from Indo-European languages. The rest of the vocabulary is made up of unmodified Sanskrit and foreign words.

Because of centuries of contact with Europeans, Turks and Persians, the foreign words in their vocabulary largely come from these languages, as well as Portuguese, Dutch and English.

Native Speakers

Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language in the world, with approximately 228 million native speakers, and 98% percent of those speakers originating from Bangladesh. Having said that, it is also spoken by dispersed Bangladeshis in Europe, the United States, and many other countries.

Modern Bengali exhibits a lot of diglossia. This is when a language has two forms - one more prestigious form used by speakers who have been formally educated and another less formal dialect which is used more commonly. Furthermore, there are so many dialects within the Bengali or Bangla language that most Bangladeshis will often speak more than one variety.

These different dialects within the Bengali language are associated with varying social classes, religion, and levels of education.

Also, recent studies have shown that the use of native and foreign words has been increasing, probably because the preference of native Bengali speakers is to use the colloquial style.

Bengali Writing

The script is derived from Brahmi, one of the ancient Indian scripts. It is characterised for having letters for consonants and diacritics for vowels. It is also a cursive script, does not distinguish between upper and lower case and like a lot of other Indo-European languages, the letters run from left to right.

Punctuation marks have all been taken from 19th century English. Also taken from the English language, the nouns are gender neutral, so in other words, there are no declinations to indicate a word is masculine of feminine.

Bengali spelling started to standardise through a set of reforms in the early 1930s, and it has affected several spelling variations. Not surprisingly, these standardisations of the Bengali orthography have just created more confusion amongst the experts.

Bengali References

Learn more about Bengali history and the people who are speak Bengali today by reading the following information on Wikipedia.org:

Bengali Translation Services

Our most common Bengali translation services and details of the translators that perform the translations can be found here: