Bengali language

Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It developed from a language called Pali. Bengali is spoken in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, parts of Assam and Jharkhand and in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Bengali
Bangla
বাংলা
"Bangla" in Bengali script
Pronunciation	[ˈbaŋla] (listen)
Region	Bangladesh and India
Ethnicity	Bengali people
Native speakers	150–300 million (2017)[1][2][3] (L1 plus L2 speakers)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Magadhi Prakrit Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Bengali
Early forms	Abahattha Assamese
Dialects	see Bengali dialects
Writing system	Eastern Nagari script (Bengali alphabet) Bengali Braille
Signed forms	Bengali signed forms[4]
Official status
Official language in	Bangladesh  India (in West Bengal, Tripura and Barak Valley)
Regulated by	Bangla Academy Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Language codes
ISO 639-1	bn
ISO 639-2	ben
ISO 639-3	ben
Glottolog	beng1280
Linguasphere	59-AAF-u
Bengali speaking region of South Asia
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Spoken Bengali

The man spoken Bengali language

There are about 220 million native speakers and about 250 million total speakers of Bengali. It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, ranking seventh.^[5]

Most people in Bangladesh speak Bengali, and many famous books and poems are written in Bengali. Rabindranath Tagore was a famous poet who wrote in Bengali. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The national anthems of both India and Bangladesh were written by Tagore in this language.^[6]