Bengali

Kolkata's native language

Bengali refers to the people, language, and culture of Bengal, a region in South Asia divided between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

As a noun, a Bengali is a person from this region or a speaker of the Bengali language—one of the world's most spoken languages, with over 230 million speakers.

As an adjective, it describes things relating to Bengal: Bengali cuisine, Bengali literature, Bengali traditions.

ethnicity

Indian

Person from either continent

Assamese · Nepali · Tamil · Gujarati · Marathi · Telugu · Sinhalese · Pakistani · Hindu · Muslim

language

Bangla

Language of Bangladesh

Hindi · Urdu · Nepali · Marathi · Rohingya · diglossia · phonology · nasalization · vocabulary · grammar

script

Assamese

Indo-Aryan northeastern tongue

  • GujaratiIndo-Aryan western language
  • TamilSouth Indian language
  • TeluguDravidian language of southeastern India

Kannada · Malayalam · Tibetan · Khmer · Thai · Burmese · matra · conjunct · calligraphy · typography

Categories
Opposites
south asian linguistic identity

BengaliHindi

India's official language

Tamil · Urdu · Punjabi · Marathi · Gujarati

language family classification

BengaliMandarin

High-ranking government official

Arabic · English · Japanese · Swahili · Finnish

Phrases
Family

Bengal, Bay of Bengal, Bengalis

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G