![]() There are about 265 million Bengali native speakers of which 168 million in Bangladesh (98 % of the total population) and 97 million in India, mainly in the states of West Bengal, Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa: In 1947 the linguistic area of Bengal was split along religious lines: West Bengal with a Hindu majority remained in India while a new state was created with Muslim majority (Eastern Pakistan, that later became Bangladesh).ĭistribution and Speakers. ![]() Due to the early and widespread Islamization of the area many words from Arabic and Persian were incorporated into Bengali. A number of phonological and morphological changes relates Bengali to other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages like Assamese and Oriya. It emerged from Middle Indo-Aryan at the beginning of the second millennium CE in Bengal, in the northeast of India. ![]() Bengali is, after Hindi, the second largest language of South Asia, and the sixth largest of the world. Alternative Name: Bangla, term which tends to replace the established name.Ĭlassification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Modern Indo-Aryan, Eastern. ![]()
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