ISO 639-3 · benben
Indo-European family
Bangla
বাংলা
Bangla is a language of the Bengali–Assamese branch (Indo-European), spoken in Bangladesh and India. Wikidata counts 300 m first-language speakers (2019) and 19.2 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
ben- ISO 639-1
bn- Glottocode
beng1280- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 24.00, 90.00
- Wikipedia
- 202 language editions
300 mfirst-language speakers
19.2 msecond-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Bangla · বাংলা |
|---|---|
| Also called | Bengali language, Bangla language, Bengali |
| L1 speakers | 300,000,000 (2019) |
| L2 speakers | 19,200,000 (2011) |
| All speakers | 106,000,000 (2011) |
| Written in | Bangla–Assamese script |
| Official in | Bangladesh |
| Grammatical cases | 4 listed in Wikidata |
| Grammatical genders | 4 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Bangla
The branches above Bangla, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Bangladesh
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