Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
India
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
👆🏻
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
-
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Old German Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5152
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
1116
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
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks20 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Chakma
Not present
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
-
How Many People Speak
330,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hajong
Not present
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
-
How Many People Speak
71,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rarhi
Not present
Where They Speak
India
-
How Many People Speak
230,000,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
250
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
3.11 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
196.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
bengali
sanskrit
German Name
Bengali
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[ˈbeŋɡali]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
1000–1200 CE
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Indic
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Bengali
Sanskrit
Language Position
423
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Bengali
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
bn
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ben
san
ISO 639 2/B
ben
san
ISO 639 3
ben
san
ISO 639 6
ben
san
Glottocode
beng1280
sans1269
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic