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Name: Bengali
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Begali; Banga-Bhasa; Bangala; Bangla; Bāṅlā; Baṅga-Bhāshā; Bangla-Bhasa
Spoken in: Nepal, USA, India, Malawi, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates
Number of speakers: 110,000,000 in Bangladesh (2001 census). 250,000,000 including L2 speakers. Population total all countries: 181,272,900 (Ethnologue)
Code: ben
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Subgroup: Bengali-Assamese; Bengali (beas)
Child Dialect Groups: Eastern Bengali; Eastern Bengali Proper; East Central (ben-eas) Northern Bengali; Koch; Siripuria (ben-nor) Western Bengali; Kharia Thar; Mal Paharia; Saraki (ben-wes)
Child Dialects: Southeastern Bengali; Chakma; South-Eastern Bengali; South-Western Bengali (ben-sow) Bhatiari (ben-bha) Southwestern Bengali; South-Western Bengali (ben-sou) Haijong; Hajaṅg (ben-hai) Ganda (ben-gan) Barik (ben-bar) Vanga (ben-van) Bahe; Bāhē (ben-bah) Samaria (ben-sam) Central Bengali; Central Standard Bengali; Standard Bengali; Literary Bengali (ben-cen) Kachari-Bengali (ben-kac) Musselmani (ben-mus) Rajshahi (ben-raj) Saraki (ben-sar) Rajbanshi; Rājbangśī; Rajbangsi (ben-rab) Chittagonian; Bengali (Chittagong) (ben-cht) Lohari-Malpaharia (ben-loh) Chirmar (ben-chi) Siripuria; Kishanganjia (ben-sip)

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