Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Indonesia
Second Language
India
East Timor, Indonesia
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
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Malay language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5126
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
116
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4019
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
27
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Halo
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
Terima kasih
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
Apa kabar?
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Selamat Pagi
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
mohon Untuk
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
maaf
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
Permisi
Dialect 1
Chakma
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
330,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hajong
Balinese
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
71,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rarhi
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
India
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2546
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
3.11 %1.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
196.00 million23.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
19.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
bengali
indonésien
German Name
Bengali
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Indonesians
Origin
1000–1200 CE
7th Century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Bengali
Indonesian
Language Position
456
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bn
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
ind
ISO 639 2/B
ben
ind
ISO 639 3
ben
ind
ISO 639 6
ben
ind
Glottocode
beng1280
indo1316
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative