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Bookmark or Share- Bengali | Language, Cuisine & History | BritannicaBengali, majority population of Bengal, the region of northeastern South Asia that generally corresponds to the country of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. The Bengali people speak dialects of Bangla—as they call the Bengali language —which belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European ...
- Bengali language - WikipediaBengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam.
- Bengali alphabet, pronunciation and language - OmniglotNotable features. Type of writing system: Abugida / Syllabic Alphabet. Writing direction: left to right in horizontal lines. Script family: Proto-Sinaitic, Phoenician, Aramaic, Brāhmī, Gupta, Siddham, Gaudi, Bengali. Status: official language in Bangladesh, and one of the official languages of India. Used to write:
- Bengali language | History, Writing System & Dialects | BritannicaBengali language, member of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken by more than 210 million people as a first or second language, with some 100 million Bengali speakers in Bangladesh; about 85 million in India, primarily in the states of.
- Bengalis - WikipediaWith about 226 million native and about 300 million total speakers worldwide, Bengali is one of the most spoken languages, ranked sixth in the world, [101] [102] and is also used a lingua franca among other ethnic groups and tribes living within and around the Bengal region.
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