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Parents therefore encourage young people to attend Bengali classes to learn the language. [73] Although many Sylheti speakers find this learning progress difficult in the UK. [100] [101] Bengali is offered as a subject in GCSE and A-Level qualifications, with 437 and 17 entries respectively, as of 2024.
Various forms of the language are in use today and provide an important force for Bengali cohesion. These distinct forms can be sorted into three categories. The first is Classical Bengali ( সাধু ভাষা Śadhu Bhaśa ), which was a historical form restricted to literary usage up until the late British period.
Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [10] [11] [12] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] It is the second-most widely spoken language in India .
Deutsche Welle's Bengali division was launched in 1975. [8] Deutsche Welle's Bengali programs were initially broadcast on short wave in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. In 2010, the radio station started broadcasting programs on FM band in Bangladesh. [9] Khaled Muhiuddin was working as the head of this department. [10] [11] [12]
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
In 2004, she won the Ethnic Multicultural Media Academy's Best Television News Journalist Award. [53] [54] Nadia Ali – Television and radio presenter. Since 2012, she has presented the live Bengali show on Sunday nights for BBC Asian Network. [55]
Language Type Spoken in Numbers of speakers in the UK English: Germanic (West Germanic) : Throughout the United Kingdom UK (2021 data): 91.1% (52.6 million) of usual residents, aged three years and over, had English (English or Welsh in Wales) as a main language (down from 92.3%, or 49.8 million, in 2011) [22]
Former Channel S logo. Channel S (Bengali: চ্যানেল এস) is a UK-based, free-to-air television channel targeting the British Bangladeshi community. The channel was established on 16 December 2004 by Mahee Ferdous Jalil, a Bangladeshi businessman in London. [1]