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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 | History, Writing System & Dialects | Britannica

    Dec 30, 2025 · Bengali language, member of the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is spoken by more than 210 million people as a first or …

  3. Bengali language - New World Encyclopedia

    The Bengali writing system is the Bengali abugida, a cursive script which is a variant of the Eastern Nagari script. The Bengali language, with its long and rich literary tradition, serves to …

  4. Bengali - Summary - eHRAF World Cultures

    The Bengali people speak the Bengali (BANGLA) language, live in the Bengal region of the Indian Subcontinent, located in northeastern South Asia, and most follow either the Hindu or the …

  5. Bengali | Penn Language Center - University of Pennsylvania

    Bengali (Bangla) is the essence and pride of all Bengal, no matter where its speakers reside or the number of years spent away from West Bengal (India) or Bangladesh, the two places …

  6. 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 …

  7. Bengali language explained

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

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

    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.

  9. Bengalis - Wikipedia

    Most speak Bengali, a classical language from the Indo-Aryan language family. Bengalis are the third-largest ethnic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and Arabs. [62] They are the …

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

    Dec 11, 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 …