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Bengali
Bengali
Bangla
বাংলা
	"Bangla" in Bengali script
Pronunciation	[ˈbaŋla] (listen)
Region	Bangladesh and India
Ethnicity	Bengalis
Native speakers	250–300 million (2017); (L1 plus L2 speakers)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Magadhi Prakrit Eastern Zone Bengali-Assamese Bengali; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Abahattha Old Bengali ;
Dialects	see Bengali dialects;
Writing system	Eastern Nagari script (Bengali alphabet); Bengali Braille
Signed forms	Bengali signed forms
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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Bengali is the most eastern Indo-Aryan language from South Asia. It developed from a language called Pali.

Bengali is spoken in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura.

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]

Almost all of the 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 in this language.^[6]

References

↑ "Article 3. The state language". The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Retrieved 1 February 2017. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
↑ "Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011" (PDF). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 29 June 2018.
↑ Bengali at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
↑ "Bangla Sign Language Dictionary". www.scribd.com. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
↑ "Statistical Summaries". Ethnologue. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
↑ "Statement by Hon'ble Foreign Minister on Second Bangladesh-India Track II dialogue at BRAC Centre on 07 August, 2005". Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2008-05-27.

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[1] "Article 3. The state language". The Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Retrieved 1 February 2017. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

[2] "Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011" (PDF). Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 29 June 2018.

[EthnologueSp-3] Bengali at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

[4] "Bangla Sign Language Dictionary". www.scribd.com. Retrieved 12 September 2018.

[popstat-5] "Statistical Summaries". Ethnologue. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-23.

[6] "Statement by Hon'ble Foreign Minister on Second Bangladesh-India Track II dialogue at BRAC Centre on 07 August, 2005". Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2008-05-27.

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v t e National symbols of Bangladesh
Main symbols	Amar Sonar Bangla (national anthem) Notuner Gaan (national march) National Emblem Government Seal Red-Green (national flag) Bengali (national language)
Monuments and Memorials	Shaheed Minar (1952, martyr monument) National Martyrs’ Memorial (1971, national monument) Martyred Intellectuals Memorial (1971, martyr monument) Column of Independence (1971, independence monument)
People	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Father of the Nation) Kazi Nazrul Islam (National poet) M. A. G. Osmani (National hero) Tajuddin Ahmad (National crown)
Flora and fauna	Mango Tree (national tree) Doel (national bird) Water lily (national flower) Royal Bengal Tiger (national animal) Jackfruit (national fruit) Ilish (national fish)
Other symbols	Kabaddi (national game) Bengali calendar (national calendar) Bangamata (national personification)

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