Bengali Language History
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A series of picture stories narrated in Bengali Bengali ( ), also known by its Bangla (:; বাংলা), is an primarily spoken by the in the. It is the official and most widely spoken language of and second most widely spoken of the 22, behind. The and of is Modern Standard Bengali (Literary Bengali). It serves as the of the nation, with 98% of Bangladeshis being fluent in Bengali (including dialects) as their. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of, and the in the state of.
Jump to History - Bengali also known by its endonym Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Bengalis in the Indian subcontinent.
It is also spoken in different parts of the Brahmaputra valley of Assam. It is also the most widely spoken language in the in the Bay of Bengal, and is spoken by significant minorities in other states including,,,,. With approximately 250–300 million total speakers worldwide, Bengali is usually counted as the by population. Dictionaries from the early 20th century attributed slightly more than half of the Bengali vocabulary to native words (i.e., naturally modified words, corrupted forms of words, and loanwords from non-Indo-European languages), about 30 percent to unmodified Sanskrit words, and the remainder to foreign words.