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
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
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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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5127
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
116
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4021
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
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)
matur nuwun
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
piye kabare?
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Sugeng énjing
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
matur nuwun
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Chakma
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
330,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hajong
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
71,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rarhi
Arekan
Where They Speak
India
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2516
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
bengali
javanais
German Name
Bengali
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1000–1200 CE
450 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indonesian
Branch
Indic
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bengali
Javanese
Language Position
411
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bn
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
jav
ISO 639 2/B
ben
jav
ISO 639 3
ben
jav
ISO 639 6
ben
jav
Glottocode
beng1280
java1253
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative