Bengali Dialect | |
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Bangla Dialect | |
বাংলা উপভাষা | |
![]() "Bangla" in Bengali script | |
Pronunciation | [ˈbaŋla] (![]() |
Region | Bangladesh and India |
Ethnicity | Assamese |
Native speakers | 150–300 million (2017)[1][2][3] (L1 plus L2 speakers) |
Early forms | Abahattha
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Eastern Nagari script (Bengali alphabet) Bengali Braille | |
Bengali signed forms[4] | |
Official status | |
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Regulated by | Bangla Academy Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | bn |
ISO 639-2 | ben |
ISO 639-3 | ben |
Glottolog | beng1280 |
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![]() Bengali speaking region of South Asia | |
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Bengali is the most eastern Indo-Aryan language from South Asia. It developed from a language called Pali. Bengali is spoken in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, parts of Assam and Jharkhand and in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
There are about 220 million native speakers and about 250 million total speakers of Bengali. It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, ranking seventh.[5]
Most people in Bangladesh speak Bengali, and many famous books and poems are written in Bengali. Rabindranath Tagore was a famous poet who wrote in Bengali. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The national anthems of both India and Bangladesh were written in this language.[6]
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