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Bengali language

Indo-Aryan language in Bengal region


Bengali language
Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. With approximately 240 million native speakers and another 41 million as second language speakers as of 2021, Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. It is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language.

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