![]() With approximately 230 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Writing system: Bengali alphabet or (Bangla) script Image from Wikipedia DESCRIPTION OF BENGALI LANGUAGEīengali, also known as Bangla (বাংলা) is a modern Indo-Arian language belonging to the eastern branch of the Indo-Iranian languages. ![]() ![]() Typology: Head-final language whose main word order is SOV (Subject – Object – Verb). Language Status: Official language in Bangladesh (1972, Constitution, Article 3) State language in India (in West Bengal, Tripura, Assam’s Barak Valley, Jharkhand)ĭialects: Barisal, Noakhali, Khulna, Mymensingh (in Bangladesh) Barik, Bhatiari, Chirmar, Kachari-Bengali, Lohari-Malpaharia, Musselmani, Rajshahi, Samaria, Saraki, Siripuria ( Kishanganjia) (in India) ![]() Language family: Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Eastern Group Bengali-AssameseĮarly forms: Prakrit Magadhi Prakrit Abahattha Old Bengali ![]()
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