Embarrassing story: I was watching the news with like 5 of my relatives over. So basically I have a habit of reading aloud captions, and this was during Cyclone Yaas, so there was a lot of, like, destruction and news about the bad weather.
And at one point, there was some news about embankments along the southern bay breaking, and I read aloud: <so-and-so> te bandh bhangol. BHANGOL. Which led to my relatives staring at me, and my mother, dead-eyed, correcting me and saying bhanglo, Pika, BHANGLO. It's been nearly a year and the relatives still laugh about that :')
This is a not-so-subtle way of asking if you could make a post about the inherent vowel fuckery of Bangla someday :'))) genuinely no pressure though!
And thank you for all the amazing posts you make already!
Yo, I'm finally answering to this ask lol
First of all, THIS IS SOOOOO RELATABLE :'D Just the other day my mom pointed out that I was mispronouncing the word বনে. It's supposed to be 'bone' and not 'bône'. I debated with her on that, arguing that this sounded like বোনে (also bone) but it seems both of them are indeed pronounced the same. Aishh...
Second of all, I'm essentially just translating this page here.
Rules of pronunciation for the letter অ (ô/o)
If in a word that starts with the letter অ, অ is followed by a consonant with zhô-pholā (য-ফলা), অ is pronounced as ও (o). Eg: অন্য, অধ্যক্ষ
If in a word that starts with the letter অ, অ is followed by a consonant with i-kār (ই-কার) or u-kār (উ-কার), it is pronounced like ও (o). Eg: অতি, অরুণ
If in a word that starts with the letter অ, অ is followed by ক্ষ (kkhô) or জ্ঞ (ggô~), অ is pronounced as ও (o). Eg: লক্ষ, যজ্ঞ
In the Bengali language, the inherent vowel (অ) of the last consonant of many adjectives, instead of being deleted, is pronounced ও (o). Eg: শত, বড়
If অ is present in the middle of a word, and is followed by ই, ঈ, উ, ঊ, ঋ or zhô-pholā (য-ফলা), it is pronounced ও (o). Eg: বিরতি, অসভ্য
In all other cases, it is pronounced ô.
Hope this will help a lot of us (including me lol) from making mistakes while reading...
Thanks for the ask!
