Bengali
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Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Bengal region of South Asia and serving as the official and most widely used language of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
Observed surface forms (12)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bengali language | 3 |
| Bengalis | 2 |
| Bangali (Dhakaiya) Bengali | 1 |
| Bangla | 1 |
| Bengali cinema | 1 |
| Bengali language continuum | 1 |
| Bengali people | 1 |
| Chittagonian (often treated as separate language) | 1 |
| Rarhi Bengali | 1 |
| Standard Bengali | 1 |
| Standard Colloquial Bengali | 1 |
| Standard Formal Bengali | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indo-Aryan language
ⓘ
modern language ⓘ |
| ancestor |
Magadhi Prakrit
ⓘ
Sanskrit ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Assamese
ⓘ
Odia ⓘ
surface form:
Oriya (Odia)
|
| developedFrom |
Indo-Aryan languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Indo-Aryan languages
|
| family |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
|
| hasAlphabeticOrder | Akar (অ) as first letter ⓘ |
| hasDialects |
Bengali
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangali (Dhakaiya) Bengali
Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Chittagonian (often treated as separate language)
Jamalpuri dialect ⓘ Nadia dialect ⓘ Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rarhi Bengali
Sylheti (often treated as separate language) ⓘ |
| hasMorphologicalType | fusional ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive aspiration in stops
ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ |
| hasStandardForm |
Bengali
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Colloquial Bengali
Bengali self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Standard Formal Bengali
|
| hasWordOrder | SOV (subject–object–verb) ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-1 | bn ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-2 | ben ⓘ |
| languageCodeISO639-3 | ben ⓘ |
| nativeName | বাংলা ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | hundreds of millions ⓘ |
| officialLanguageOf |
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan)
ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Indian state of Assam (some districts) ⓘ Indian state of Tripura ⓘ Indian state of West Bengal ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
Constitution of Bangladesh
ⓘ
Constitution of India ⓘ |
| region |
Assam
ⓘ
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Bengal ⓘ
surface form:
Bengal region
Tripura ⓘ West Bengal ⓘ |
| scriptDirection | left-to-right ⓘ |
| status |
national language of Bangladesh
ⓘ
official language of several Indian states ⓘ |
| subbranch | Eastern Indo-Aryan languages ⓘ |
| subfamily | Indo-Iranian languages ⓘ |
| usedAs |
lingua franca in Bangladesh
ⓘ
lingua franca in parts of eastern India ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Bengali cinema
ⓘ
Bengali literature ⓘ Bengali music ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Bengali script
ⓘ
Eastern Nagari script ⓘ |
| writingSystemType | abugida ⓘ |
Referenced by (90)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bangla
subject surface form:
Meghnad Saha
subject surface form:
Satyendra Nath Bose
subject surface form:
People's Republic of Bangladesh
this entity surface form:
Bengalis
subject surface form:
People's Republic of Bangladesh
subject surface form:
People's Republic of Bangladesh
subject surface form:
West Bengal
this entity surface form:
Bengali language continuum