Bengali language - Wikipedia Bengali is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Odisha, Bihar, and Jharkhand, and sizeable minorities of Bengali speakers reside in Indian cities outside Bengal, including Delhi, Mumbai, Thane, Varanasi, and Vrindavan
Bengali | Language, People, Culture, History | Britannica Bengali people are the majority population of Bengal, the region of northeastern South Asia that generally corresponds to the country of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal The Bengalis speak dialects of Bangla, as they call the Bengali language
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 language
Bengali language - New World Encyclopedia Bengali exhibits diglossia between the written and spoken forms of the language; two styles of writing, involving somewhat different vocabularies and syntax, have emerged The Bengali writing system is the Bengali abugida, a cursive script which is a variant of the Eastern Nagari script
Bengalis - Wikipedia Bengali is generally written using the Bengali script and evolved circa 1000–1200 CE from Magadhi Prakrit, thus bearing similarities to ancient languages such as Pali
Bengali language | History, Writing System Dialects | Britannica 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-Burman families, all of which contributed to Bengali vocabulary and provided the language with some structural forms
Bengali language - Wikiwand 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 p
Bengali | Penn Language Center - University of Pennsylvania Bengali (Bangla) is the essence and pride of all Bengal, no matter where its speakers reside or the number of years spent away from West Bengal (India) or Bangladesh, the two places where Bengali is a native language