Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal
Second Language
India
Republic of Brazil
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
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Hindi
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5148
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1112
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4036
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
Good afternoon
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
कृपया
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Chakma
Doteli
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
330,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hajong
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
71,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rarhi
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
India
Nepal
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2512
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
bengali
népalais
German Name
Bengali
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1000–1200 CE
19 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Bengali
Nepali
Language Position
459
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bn
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
nep
ISO 639 2/B
ben
nep
ISO 639 3
ben
npi
ISO 639 6
ben
nep
Glottocode
beng1280
nepa1254
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative