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Bengali language

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 primarily spoken by the Bengali people, native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal) as well as in Barak Valley in Assam and Tripura in South Asia. With over 242 million native…

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Dialects
Vaṅga · Rāṛhī · Sundarbanī · Varendrī · Mānbhūmī
Early forms
Magadhan Apabhraṃśa Abahaṭ‌ṭha Old Bengali Middle Bengali · Abahaṭ‌ṭha Old Bengali Middle Bengali · Old Bengali Middle Bengali · Middle Bengali
Ethnicity
Bengalis
Glottolog
beng1280
ISO 639-1
bn
ISO 639-2
ben

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Bengali language

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Edges334
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Avg. degree1.99
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Bengali language

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related to Dialects · 31
Bengali language → Bangladesh, Barisal, Bengal, Bengali, Chakma, Chittagong, Chittagonian, Dhaka, Eastern Bengali, Hajong, In, Kamrupi, Kharia Thar, Linguist Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Mal Paharia, Nadia, Northern Bengali, Rarhi, Regional, Similarly
related to Alternative and historic scripts · 25
Bengali language → Baitali Kaithi, Bankura, Bengal's, Bengali, Bhaktapur, Bihar, Devanagari, Hindustani, In, In Sylhet, Kaithi, Kingdom, Midnapore, Muslim, Newar, Odia, Odisha, Owing, Small, Sylhet
related to Ancient · 25
Bengali language → Apabhraṃśa, Ardha Magadhi, Assam, BCE, Bengal, Bengali, Bihar, Buddhist Acharyas, Gaudi Prakrit, Greater Magadhan, Gupta Empire, Hindu, Indo-Aryans, Keith, Magadhi Prakrit, Middle Indo-Aryan, Muhammad Shahidullah, Old Indo-Aryan, Prakrit, Sanskrit
related to Vocabulary · 22
Bengali language → Arabic, Assamese, Bengal's, Bengali, Desi, Direct, English, Foreign Loanwords, Indigenous, Indo-Aryan, Inherited Indo-Aryan, Native Words, Nepali, Persian, Portuguese, Sanskrit, Tadbhava, Tadbhavas, Tatsama, Tatsamas
related to Official status · 15
Bengali language → Act, Assam, Bangladesh, Barak Valley, Bengali, Constitution, In India, Indian, It, Jharkhand, September, The, The Bengali Language Implementation, Tripura, West Bengal
Dialects · 8
Bengali language → Chittagonian, Mānbhūmī, Rangpuri, Rāṛhī, Sundarbanī, Sylheti, Varendrī, Vaṅga
Official language in · 6
Bengali language → Assam (Barak Valley), Bangladesh (national), India (scheduled) West Bengal Tripura Assam (Barak Valley) Jharkhand (additional), Jharkhand (additional), Tripura, West Bengal
Region · 6
Bengali language → Andaman and Nicobar islands (India), Barak Valley (Assam, India), Bengal (Bangladesh and West Bengal, India), Jharkhand (India), Jiribam (Manipur, India), Tripura (India)
related to history · 6
Bengali language → Bengali, Gauda-Bangla, Gauda-Kamarupa, Magadhan, Magadhi Prakrit, The
Language family · 5
Bengali language → Bengali, Bengali–AssameseBengali, EasternBengali–AssameseBengali, Indo-AryanEasternBengali–AssameseBengali, Indo-IranianIndo-AryanEasternBengali–AssameseBengali

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bengali language bengal words bangladesh script consonant spoken also used official languages west india written sanskrit form vowel dialects standard

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Bengali languageDialectsVaṅga1.00infobox
Bengali languageDialectsRāṛhī1.00infobox
Bengali languageDialectsSundarbanī1.00infobox
Bengali languageDialectsVarendrī1.00infobox
Bengali languageDialectsMānbhūmī1.00infobox
Bengali languageDialectsRangpuri1.00infobox
Bengali languageDialectsSylheti1.00infobox
Bengali languageDialectsChittagonian1.00infobox
Bengali languageEarly formsMagadhan Apabhraṃśa Abahaṭ‌ṭha Old Bengali Middle Bengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageEarly formsAbahaṭ‌ṭha Old Bengali Middle Bengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageEarly formsOld Bengali Middle Bengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageEarly formsMiddle Bengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageEthnicityBengalis1.00infobox
Bengali languageGlottologbeng12801.00infobox
Bengali languageISO 639-1bn1.00infobox
Bengali languageISO 639-2ben1.00infobox
Bengali languageISO 639-3ben1.00infobox
Bengali languageLanguage familyIndo-IranianIndo-AryanEasternBengali–AssameseBengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageLanguage familyIndo-AryanEasternBengali–AssameseBengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageLanguage familyEasternBengali–AssameseBengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageLanguage familyBengali–AssameseBengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageLanguage familyBengali1.00infobox
Bengali languageLinguasphere59-AAF-u1.00infobox
Bengali languageNative toBangladesh and India1.00infobox
Bengali languageOfficial language inBangladesh (national)1.00infobox
Bengali languageOfficial language inIndia (scheduled) West Bengal Tripura Assam (Barak Valley) Jharkhand (additional)1.00infobox
Bengali languageOfficial language inWest Bengal1.00infobox
Bengali languageOfficial language inTripura1.00infobox
Bengali languageOfficial language inAssam (Barak Valley)1.00infobox
Bengali languageOfficial language inJharkhand (additional)1.00infobox

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