Countries
Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nigeria
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5136
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4028
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
kedụ
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
dalụ
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
Biko
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
Ndo
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
Not Available
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
ngọpụ
Dialects
Dialect 1
Chakma
Enuani
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
330,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hajong
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
71,000.001,500,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rarhi
Not present
Where They Speak
India
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2520
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %NA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 millionNA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
igbo
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Ibo
French Name
bengali
igbo
German Name
Bengali
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not available
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Igbo people
History
Origin
1000–1200 CE
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
No early forms
Standard Forms
Bengali
Standard Igbo
Language Position
457
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
bn
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
ben
ibo
ISO 639 3
ben
ibo
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
beng1280
nucl1417
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative