- 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
- Learn Bengali Online (বাংলা)
Bengali wordlists, Bengali grammar notes and links to other online Bengali language learning activities
- বাংলা ভাষা - Bengali language - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
Bengali, or Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura by approximately 250 million speakers
- Bengali | South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Bengali (aka Bangla) is spoken in Eastern India and Bangladesh by over 200 million speakers It is linguistically related to Sanskrit and has had a rich history as a literary language since the close of the first millennium
- 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
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