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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, Thane, …

  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 West Bengal. …

  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 as a second …

  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 writing system is …

  5. বাংলা ভাষা - Bengali language - Wikibooks, open books for an …

    Nov 9, 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.

  6. Learn Bengali Online (বাংলা)

    Bengali wordlists, Bengali grammar notes and links to other online Bengali language learning activities.

  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 close of …

  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 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-Burman families, all …

  10. Bengali language explained

    Mar 16, 2025 · What is Bengali language? Explaining what we could find out about Bengali language.