Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Myanmar
Second Language
India
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Asia
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
Mon
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Thai Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5133
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4033
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Chakma
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
330,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hajong
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
71,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rarhi
Intha
Where They Speak
India
Burma
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
255
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
bengali
birman
German Name
Bengali
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Bamar people
Origin
1000–1200 CE
1113 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Bengali
Modern Burmese
Language Position
443
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bn
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
mya
ISO 639 2/B
ben
bur
ISO 639 3
ben
mya
ISO 639 6
ben
mya
Glottocode
beng1280
sout3159
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating