Bengali people

E115269

Indo-Aryan people ethnic group ethnolinguistic group

Bengali people are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Bengal region of South Asia, known for their rich literary, artistic, and cultural heritage.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Bengali people canonical	56
Bengalis	14
Chittagonian people	3
Sylheti people	3
Bengali American	1
Bengali Hindus	1
Bengali nationalists	1
Hindu Bengalis	1
Indian Bengalis	1

Statements (72)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indo-Aryan people ⓘ ethnic group ⓘ ethnolinguistic group ⓘ
associatedLanguageStandard	Bengali ⓘ surface form: Standard Bengali
associatedWith	Assam ⓘ Bengali nationalism ⓘ surface form: Bangla language movement People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh Bangladesh Liberation War ⓘ Bangladeshi ⓘ surface form: Bangladeshi nation Baul tradition ⓘ Bengali New Year ⓘ Bengali Renaissance ⓘ Bengali cinema ⓘ Bengali literature ⓘ Bengali music ⓘ Bengali nationalism ⓘ Bengali poetry ⓘ Bengali theatre ⓘ Durga Puja ⓘ Indian state of West Bengal ⓘ Nazrul Geeti ⓘ Pohela Boishakh ⓘ Rabindra Sangeet ⓘ Tripura ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ
cuisine	Bengali cuisine ⓘ
culturalTrait	distinct film tradition ⓘ distinct music traditions ⓘ rich literary heritage ⓘ strong artistic traditions ⓘ
dessertSpecialty	Mishti Doi ⓘ Rasgulla ⓘ Sandesh ⓘ
ethnicMajorityOf	People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh
ethnicPluralityOf	West Bengal ⓘ
historicalRegion	Partition of Bengal 1905 ⓘ surface form: Partition of Bengal (1905) Partition of Bengal 1947 ⓘ surface form: Partition of Bengal (1947)
ISO639LanguageCode	bn ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
majorityPopulationIn	People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ surface form: Bangladesh
majorityReligionInBangladesh	Islam ⓘ
majorityReligionInWestBengal	Hinduism ⓘ
nativeTo	Bengal ⓘ surface form: Bengal region South Asia ⓘ
notableFigure	Amartya Sen ⓘ Kazi Nazrul Islam ⓘ Rabindranath Tagore ⓘ Satyajit Ray ⓘ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ⓘ Subhas Chandra Bose ⓘ
primaryLanguage	Bengali language ⓘ
religion	Buddhism ⓘ Christianity ⓘ Hinduism ⓘ Islam ⓘ folk religion ⓘ
significantPopulationIn	Canada ⓘ India ⓘ Italy ⓘ Malaysia ⓘ Middle East ⓘ Myanmar ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Singapore ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
stapleFood	fish ⓘ rice ⓘ
usesWritingSystem	Bengali script ⓘ surface form: Bengali–Assamese script

Referenced by (81)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sen → ethnicAssociation → Bengali people ⓘ

Nabaneeta Dev Sen → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Bengali script → usedBy → Bengali people ⓘ

Dasgupta → usedByEthnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Chittagong → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Chittagong → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chittagonian people

Pohela Boishakh → observedBy → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Kali Puja → celebratedBy → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Assamese people → relatedEthnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Tripura → majorEthnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Mrinalini Devi → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Bose → ethnicAssociation → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengali Hindus

Satyendra → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

subject surface form: Satyendra Nath Bose

Bangladeshi → associatedWith → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chittagonian people

Bangladeshi → associatedWith → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sylheti people

Amar Lahiri → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

South Asian ethnic groups → includesEthnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Indo-Iranian peoples → hasModernGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Nawab of Bengal → hasEthnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Dwijendranath Tagore → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Janakinath Bose → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Mrinalini Devi → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Saraswati Puja → associatedWithCommunity → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Suchitra Sen → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Meghnad Saha → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Sisir Kumar Mitra → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Das Gupta → usedByEthnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Das → hasEthnoLinguisticAssociation → Bengali people ⓘ

Das → isUsedByCommunity → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hindu Bengalis

Sylheti language → isSpokenBy → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sylheti people

Rajlakshmi Devi → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Sukhamoy Chakravarty → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Bengali nationalism → mainSubject → Bengali people ⓘ

Rabindra Jayanti → celebratedBy → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Bengali calendar → usedBy → Bengali people ⓘ

Boishakh → celebratedBy → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bengalis

Pramila Nazrul Islam → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Pramila Nazrul Islam → spouseEthnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Indo-Aryan peoples → hasSubgroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Chittagonian people

Indo-Aryan peoples → hasSubgroup → Bengali people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sylheti people

Al Mahmud → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Keshab Chandra Sen → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Churulia → hasCulturalSignificanceFor → Bengali people ⓘ

Pramila Devi → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Ritwik Ghatak → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ

Uttam Kumar → ethnicGroup → Bengali people ⓘ