About Bengali Language | Bengali | Alphabets in Bengali

Countries

Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 11 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Bangladesh, India

Second Language

India

Speaking Continents

Asia

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi

Interesting Facts

Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.

Similar To

Assamese and Oriya

Derived From

Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 30 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 29 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 1 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks

Rank: 11 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

হ্যালো (Hyālō)

Thank You

ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)

How Are You?

কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)

Good Night

শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)

Good Evening

শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)

Good Afternoon

ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)

Good Morning

সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)

Please

অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)

Sorry

দুঃখিত (dukkhito)

Bye

বিদায় (Bidāẏa)

I Love You

আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)

Excuse Me

মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakma

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, Burma, India

How Many People Speak

330,000.00

Rank: 36 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Hajong

Where They Speak

Bangladesh, India

How Many People Speak

71,000.00

Rank: 36 (Overall)

700 80000000

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Dialect 3

Rarhi

Where They Speak

India

How Many People Speak

Not Available

1400 96000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 21 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

215.00 million

Rank: 9 (Overall)

0.13 1200

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Speaking Population

3.11 %

Rank: 8 (Overall)

0.11 89

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Native Speakers

196.00 million

Rank: 7 (Overall)

0.13 873

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Second Language Speakers

19.00 million

Rank: 16 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

বাংলা (baɛṅlā)

Alternative Names

Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa

French Name

bengali

German Name

Bengali

Pronunciation

Not available

Ethnicity

Bengalis (Bengali people)

History

Origin

1000–1200 CE

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian

Branch

Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

Abahatta, Old Bengali

Standard Forms

Bengali

Language Position

Rank: 4 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Not Available

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ben

ISO 639 2/B

ben

ISO 639 3

ben

ISO 639 6

Not Available

Glottocode

beng1280

Linguasphere

59-AAF-u

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Bengali

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Bengali Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Bengali Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Bengali. Bengali phonology gives Bengali vowels and Bengali consonants. There are 11 vowels and 40 consonants in Bengali language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Bengali is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Bengali language is given in detail in this section.

All Bengali countries

Want to explore all Bengali countries? About Bengali language serves you with all Bengali Speaking Countries. Countries that use Bengali as official language are called as Bengali countries.

Countries that use Bengali as their National Language are: Bangladesh, India.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Bengali as second language are: India.

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Learn Bengali greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Bengali Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Bengali language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Bengali language.Learn Bengali greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello: হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Thank you: ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
Good Morning: সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Good Evening: শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Good Afternoon: ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)

All Bengali Language Codes

Get to know all Bengali language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Bengali Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.