 Loanwords from non-Indic languages comprise the remaining 8% of the vocabulary used in modern Bengali literature.According to Suniti Kumar Chatterji, dictionaries from the early 20th century attributed about 50% of the Bengali vocabulary to native words (i.e., naturally modified Prakrit words, corrupted forms of Aryan words, and non Indo-European languages.About 45% percent of Bengali words are unmodified Sanskrit, and the remaining words are from foreign languages.