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Bengali people may be broadly classified into sub-groups predominantly based on dialect but also other aspects of culture: Bangals: This is a term used predominantly in Indian West Bengal to refer to East Bengalis – i.e. Bangladeshis as well as those whose ancestors originate from Eastern Bengal. The East Bengali dialects are known as Bangali ...
Bengali is also spoken by the Bengali ... Ardha Magadhi began to give way to what is known as ... language of the country. In India, Bengali is one of the 23 ...
Major Indo-Aryan languages of South Asia; Eastern Indo-Aryan languages in shades of yellow. The Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Māgadhan languages, are spoken throughout the eastern region of the Indian subcontinent, which includes Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bengal region, Tripura, Assam, and Odisha; alongside other regions surrounding the northeastern Himalayan corridor.
The most-widely spoken first language in the country is Punjabi, spoken by the Punjabi people, forming a majority in the Punjab province and Islamabad Capital Territory. Punjabi is followed by Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, [a] Urdu, Balochi; while more than 70 other languages like Shina, Balti, Gujarati, [28] Bengali [29] etc. are also spoken.
The Bisnupriya Manipuri people speaks Bishnupriya, a creole [90] of Bengali language and Meitei language (officially known as "Manipuri language") and it still retains its pre-Bengali features. [91] A negligible small minority of Marwari people live in various cities and towns of the country such as Dinajpur, Kushtia and Narayanganj.
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.
According to a 2022 census, Bengali is predominantly spoken by 99% of the country's population and it also serves as the national language of the nation. The indigenous people of northern and southeastern Bangladesh speak a variety of native languages.
Dutch is the primary language, and West Frisian is recognized as a minority language [204] and spoken by between 300,000 and 700,000 people. West Frisian is mostly spoken in the province of Friesland, where it is the official first [citation needed] language.