Bengali
RegionBangladesh/East India
FamilyIndo-European (Indo-Aryan)
Speakers272 million total
ScriptBengali
TypeAbugida
About Bengali
The seventh most spoken language. National language of Bangladesh. The Language Movement of 1952 in Bangladesh was the first assertion of linguistic identity leading to independence. Uses the Bengali script derived from ancient Brahmi. Rabindranath Tagore wrote in Bengali and won the Nobel Prize.
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