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Bengali /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/ or Bangla /bɑːŋlɑː/ (বাংলা Bangla [ˈbaŋla] ) is the language native to the region of Bengal which comprises present-day Bangladesh and the Indian states West Bengal Tripura and southern Assam. It is written using the Bengali script. With about 220 million native and about 250 million total speakers Bengali is one of the most spoken languages ranked seventh in the world.

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ISO 639-1 code
bn
ISO 639-2 code
ben
ISO 639-3 code
ben
family
Indo-Iranian languages, Bengali–Assamese languages, Indo-Aryan languages
language regulator or academy
Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, Bangla Academy
spoken in
Bangladesh, Bengal, India, Tripura, Barak Valley

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