French to Bengali Translation

French to Bengali translation draws on a real shared history in Bengal. Chandannagar, about 35 km from Kolkata, was a French colony until 1950 and still has French-era buildings, a French institute and an annual Jagaddhatri Puja that tourists love, and the Alliance Française du Bengale in Kolkata teaches French to thousands of learners. French, with about 320 million speakers worldwide, uses the Latin alphabet with accents, while Bengali, with about 270 million speakers in West Bengal and Bangladesh, uses its own abugida script with no capital letters. People use this pair for French tourists visiting Kolkata, Darjeeling and the Sundarbans, Bengali students preparing for DELF exams, and francophone aid and business visitors in Bangladesh. One useful difference is that Bengali has no grammatical gender at all, while every French noun is masculine or feminine.