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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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