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  1. Bengali language - Wikipedia

    Bengali is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Odisha, Bihar, and Jharkhand, and sizeable minorities of Bengali speakers reside in Indian cities outside Bengal, including Delhi, Mumbai, …

  2. Bengali | Language, People, Culture, & History | Britannica

    Oct 1, 2025 · Bengali people are the majority population of Bengal, the region of northeastern South Asia that generally corresponds to the country of Bangladesh and the Indian state of …

  3. Bengali alphabet, pronunciation and language - Omniglot

    Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Bangladesh and northern Indian. There are about 250 million native speakers of Bengali, and another 41 million people speak it …

  4. The Beginner's Guide to the Bengali Language [With Basic Words …

    Jun 17, 2022 · The Bengali Language is one of the most spoken languages in the world. Curious about it? Here are basic words, phrases, and tips to learn it!

  5. Bengali language - New World Encyclopedia

    Bengali exhibits diglossia between the written and spoken forms of the language; two styles of writing, involving somewhat different vocabularies and syntax, have emerged. The Bengali …

  6. বাংলা ভাষা - Bengali language - Wikibooks, open books …

    Aug 3, 2025 · Bengali, or Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura by approximately 250 million speakers.

  7. Bengalis - Wikipedia

    Bengali is generally written using the Bengali script and evolved circa 1000–1200 CE from Magadhi Prakrit, thus bearing similarities to ancient languages such as Pali.

  8. Who are the Bengali People? - WorldAtlas

    May 21, 2019 · Bengali people, also known as Bangalees, Bangalis or Bengalis, are the world’s third-biggest ethnic community right after the Arabs and the Han Chinese. They are an ethnic …

  9. Bengali language | History, Writing System & Dialects | Britannica

    Aug 30, 2025 · Although Bengali is an Indo-European language, it has been influenced by other language families prevalent in South Asia, notably the Dravidian, the Austroasiatic, and the …

  10. Bengali language - Wikiwand

    Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is a classical Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is n...