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The population is divided between the sovereign country Bangladesh and the Indian regions of West Bengal, Tripura, Barak Valley, Goalpara, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and parts of Meghalaya, Manipur and Jharkhand. [58] Most speak Bengali, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.
Bengali is the 5th most spoken language in the world. It is an eastern Indo-Aryan language and one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. It is part of the Bengali-Assamese languages. Bengali has greatly influenced other languages in the region, including Odia, Assamese, Chakma, Nepali and Rohingya.
Bangla – the contents and attributes of the Bengali language or the country of Bangladesh. Bengali – the contents and attributes of Bengal. Bangiya (Bengali: বঙ্গীয় ) – an adjectival prefix referring to Bengal particularly in the field of literature, e.g. Bangiya Sahitya Parishad , Bangiya Gramin Vikash Bank and Bangiya ...
There are 272,338 Bangladeshi in the country, [19] whereas 256,681 of them are reported as Bangladeshi origin and the rest are reported as mixed. [20] Bangladeshi Americans are largely concentrated in metropolitan areas in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Great Lakes regions of the country, especially working-class neighborhoods and suburbs.
Pages in category "Countries and territories where Bengali is an official language" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Bengali Americans (Bengali: মার্কিন বাঙ্গালী) are Americans of Bengali ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage and identity. They trace their ancestry to the historic ethnolinguistic region of Bengal region in the Indian subcontinent , now divided between Bangladesh and West Bengal , India.
South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It is home to the fourth most spoken language in the world, Hindi–Urdu; the seventh most spoken language, Bengali; and thirteenth most spoken language, Punjabi.
It is also the de facto national language of the country. In India, Bengali is one of the 23 official languages. [52] It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and in Barak Valley of Assam. [53] [54] Bengali has been a second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011.