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Bengali language

Spoken language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia. Wikipedia

Language family: Indo-European > Indo-Iranian > Indo-Aryan > Eastern > Bengali–Assamese > Bengali

Speakers: L1: 237 million (2011–2021); L2: 41 million (2011–2021)

Writing system: Bengali–Assamese script; Bengali Braille; Alternative and historic scripts