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Preferred term

benBengali  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Bengali (বাংলা Bangla ) is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal (recently proposed to change it to new English name Paschimbanga ) , and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script. With nearly 300 million total speakers, ) in the world.

Entry terms

  • Bengali language

ISO 639-1 code

  • bn

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • ben

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • ben

ISO 639-3 code

  • ben

Notation

  • ben

In other languages

  • Bengali

    French

  • bengali
  • Bengalisch

    German

  • Bengalische Sprache
  • bengalese

    Italian

  • Lingua bengalese
  • bengali

    Portuguese

  • Língua bengali
  • bengalí

    Spanish

  • Idioma bengalí

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ben

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