Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Lao Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5153
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
1120
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4033
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Khmer
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
សូម
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
សូរី
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Chakma
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
330,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hajong
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
71,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rarhi
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
India
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
256
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
196.00 million13.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
bengali
khmer central
German Name
Bengali
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
1000–1200 CE
14
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Bengali
Modern Khmer
Language Position
41
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bn
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
khm
ISO 639 2/B
ben
khm
ISO 639 3
ben
khm
ISO 639 6
ben
khm
Glottocode
beng1280
khme1253
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating