Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
China, Guangdong
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Chinese Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5128
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4020
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
210
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
您好
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
谢谢
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
你好吗？
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
晚安
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
下午好
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
早上好
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
请
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
遗憾
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
再见
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
我爱你
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
原谅我
Dialect 1
Chakma
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
330,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hajong
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
71,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rarhi
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
India
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
253
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
bengali
cantonais
German Name
Bengali
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Han Chinese
Origin
1000–1200 CE
17th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bengali
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
41
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
bn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
yue
ISO 639 2/B
ben
yue
ISO 639 3
ben
No data available
ISO 639 6
ben
yue
Glottocode
beng1280
cant1236
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-