Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
India
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Marathi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1116
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4036
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
Namaskar
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
kaso assa?
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
Chike
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Maf kor
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
Adeus
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Chakma
Antruz
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Goa
How Many People Speak
330,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hajong
Not present
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
-
How Many People Speak
71,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rarhi
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
251
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
bengali
konkani
German Name
Bengali
Konkani
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Konkanis
Origin
1000–1200 CE
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bengali
Kokani
Language Position
423
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bn
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
kok
ISO 639 2/B
ben
kok
ISO 639 3
ben
kok
ISO 639 6
ben
kok
Glottocode
beng1280
goan1235
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-