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Vowels, Glides and Diphthongs

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Acoustics of Bangla Speech Sounds

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Bengali is the official state language of the Eastern Indian state of West Bengal and the national language of Bangladesh.

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Datta, A.K. (2018). Vowels, Glides and Diphthongs. In: Acoustics of Bangla Speech Sounds. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4262-1_1

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