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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

    Nov 4, 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. 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 …

  5. 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!

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

    6 days ago · 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. Bengali | South Asian Languages and Civilizations

    Bengali (aka Bangla) is spoken in Eastern India and Bangladesh by over 200 million speakers. It is linguistically related to Sanskrit and has had a rich history as a literary language since the …

  8. 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.

  9. Bengali – The Languages

    Bengali has a rich tradition of literature, including the works of Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature. The language also plays a significant role in music, …

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

    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 Tibeto …