![]() ![]() In India, it statutory provincial language in West Bengal, Tripura, Assam states.īengali is one of the 23 official languages of India, where it is spoken by 82.5 million people and the second most-spoken language after Hindi– Urdu. The total number of speakers of Bengali worldwide is 189 million ( Ethnologue), making it the seventh most spoken language in the world after Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, and Portuguese (Ethnologue).īengali is the national language of Bangladesh where it is spoken as a first language by 106 million, and as a second language by 20 million speakers. The direct ancestors of Bengali are Prakrit, and Sanskrit. ![]() In Bengali, the language is called Bangla ( bangla means ‘low’). In English, Bengali refers to both the language and the people who speak it. Along with Assamese, it is the easternmost of all Indo-European languages. Bengali, also called Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa, belongs to the Eastern group of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. ![]()
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