''A Grammar of the Bengal Language'' is a 1778 modern

Bengali grammar Bengali grammar ( ''Bangla bêkôrôn'') is the study of the morphology and syntax of Bengali, an Indo-European language spoken in the Indian subcontinent. Given that Bengali has two forms, (''cholito bhasha'') and (''shadhu bhasha''), the gr ...

book written in English by

Nathaniel Brassey Halhed Nathaniel Brassey Halhed (25 May 1751 – 18 February 1830) () was an English Orientalist and philologist. Halhed was born at Westminster, and was educated at Harrow School, where he began a close friendship with Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Whi ...

. This is the first grammar book of the

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

language. The book, published in 1778, was probably printed from the Endorse Press in Hooghly,

Bengal Presidency The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal until 1937, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule in India, Company rule and later a Provinces o ...

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Earliest printed books in select languages, Part 2: 1501–1897
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