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  2. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  4. States of India by Bengali speakers - Wikipedia

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    The Partition violence may have played a part in this decision. The apprehension of being persecuted in the newly independent country made the migrants give up language and keep religion. As a mirror image of the quick rise in the Assamese speaking population, during 1931-1951 the population of Bengali speakers fell by as much as 25%.

  5. Lists of countries and territories by official language

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    Country Region Population Status India Asia 1,367,703,110 [1]: Hindi is one of the two official union languages of India alongside English.Hindi and Urdu (both registers of Hindustani language) are official languages along with 20 others under the Eighth Schedule of Constitution of India.

  6. Languages of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Bengal - Wikipedia

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    The Barak Valley has a Bengali-speaking majority population. ... There are 150 types of Bengali country boats plying the 700 rivers of the Bengal delta, ...

  8. List of countries by number of languages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Bangladesh: 41 4 45 0.63 165,220,330 3,842,333

  9. Bangladeshis - Wikipedia

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    [49] [50] [51] The minority Bengali Hindu population made up approximately 7.95% of the population of the country according to the 2022 Census [52] [53] Non-Bengali Muslims make up the largest immigrant community; while the Tibeto-Burman Chakmas, who speak the Indo-Aryan Chakma language, are the largest indigenous ethnic group after Indo-Aryan ...