
Bengali language - Wikipedia
Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [9][10][11] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [12][13] It is the second-most widely spoken …
Bengali language | History, Writing System & Dialects | Britannica
Dec 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 Tibeto …
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 …
Bengali language - New World Encyclopedia
Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. Bengali is native to the region of eastern South Asia …
A Language In Flux: How Bangla Is Evolving In The 21st Century
2 days ago · As Bangla absorbs English and Hindi loanwords and shifts online speech patterns, the language continues a centuries-long tradition of adaptation and assimilation. Understanding this …
Bengali | South Asian Languages and Civilizations
SALC trains us to read Bangla as an ever-emergent language, replete with a wide range of grammatical forms, syntactical sophistication, and a constant traffic between modern and medieval Bangla.
Bengali: From Renaissance Letters to the Digital Frontier
Nov 13, 2025 · Bengali—known to its speakers as Bangla—is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages and the national language of Bangladesh.
Bengali - The Languages
The Bengali language, also known as Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam’s Barak Valley. With over 230 …
Bangla Language - Banglapedia
Bangla is the state language of bangladesh and one of 18 languages listed in the Indian Constitution. It is the administrative language of the Indian states of Tripura and west bengal as well as one of the …
Bengali language - Wikiwand
Bengali, [a] also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā [baŋˈla] ⓘ), is a classical Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is native to …