The Sound of the Bengali language (UDHR, Numbers, Greetings, Words & Sample Text)

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Native to: Bangladesh and India
Region: Bengal
Ethnicity: Bengalis
Native speakers: 230 million (2011–2017)
L2 speakers: 37 million
Language family: Indo-European (Indo-Iranian)

is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 228 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the fifth most-spoken native language and the sixth most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world.

Bengali is the official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and is spoken by significant populations in other states including Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Uttarakhand. Bengali is also spoken by the Bengali diasporas (Bangladeshi diaspora and Indian Bengalis) in Europe, the United States, the Middle East and other countries.

Bengali has developed over the course of more than 1,300 years. Bengali literature, with its millennium-old literary history, extensively developed during the Bengali Renaissance and is one of the most prolific and diverse literary traditions in Asia. The Bengali language movement from 1948 to 1956 demanding Bengali to be an official language of Pakistan fostered Bengali nationalism in East Bengal leading to the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971. In 1999, UNESCO recognised 21 February as International Mother Language Day in recognition of the language movement.

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[tathagatachatterjee]

এপার এবং ওপার বাংলার সকল বঙ্গসন্তানগণকে অনেক ভালোবাসা ও প্রণাম জানাই। বাংলা ভাষার মর্যাদা চির অক্ষুণ্ণ হোক।

[chestersakamoto]

As with other Indo-European languages, you can tell that Bengali is part of the family when you listen to its numbers. I can hear similarities with Celtic and Italic languages, particularly Irish Gaelic (char, shat, aat, noy) and Ligurian (dui, dosh). Just fascinating!

[Egemony]

Fun fact, Bengali is among top 10 most spoken languages with +225 million speakers

[kausumidasgupta]

Apart from Bangladesh, Bengali is also spoken in West Bengal, Tripura and Assam in India. As an Indian & a Bengalee, it is the sweetest language to me. Bengali is my mother tongue. ❤❤❤

[aldhieu.a.teodocio]

I've been always waiting for this! Of all major languages of the world, Bengali seems to be the most underrated. It deserves recognition though!

[agniswar]

আমার মাতৃভাষা বাংলা কে সকলের সামনে তুলে ধরবার জন্যে তোমায় অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ।
🙏🙏

[leonhardeuler]

I like how formal the Bengali phrases presented are. Bengalis may use these in writing but in everyday speech they don't use these phrases unless there is a good reason to.

[redlamper]

Bengali seems more closer to its Indo-Aryan roots than Hindi.

[broman]

FINALLY, been waiting for a video on Bengali for such a long time, definitely one of the softest and sweetest languages in the world. Please do more videos on the other Indian languages which haven't been done.

[PriyankaSharma-cwjb]

I am from Odisha, I can understand every word

[SASHIthedestroyer]

I am from India West Bengal, Kolkata thank you for our mother language.

Joy Bangla Joy Hind

[mahathirmuhammadshuvo]

Thanks for making a vedio about Bengali /bangla Language. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Fun Fact :if u asked google, "what is the most sweetest language in the world"
Its answer is Bengali /bangla.
U guys can try about this.

[agniswar]

Thank you so much Andy!! I am really happy today. Take so much love from India and Bengal.
Proud to be Bengali.

[jackharrison]

It’s also a few of my friends mother tongue, half of them are from Bangladesh, & the other half are from West Bengal, India

[sunduncan]

Hope we have Chittagonian and Rohingya language. They’re closely related to Bengali and Assamese.

[ilovehomies]

I can speak hindi and gujrati, but I still can't get the hang of it. This is a beautiful language in my opinion

[agniswar]

The first asian noble laureate Rabindranath tagore was a bengali.

[ronlionheart]

The Easternmost Indo European language. Love to all Indo European brothers and sisters!

[Zaffrod]

A good way to memorize 4(Char) is that Charmander is #4 in the Pokédex!

[wythore]

Off topic, but I would like you to talk about Mirandês, the second oficial language of Portugal. Mix of both portuguese, aragonese and leonese languages, it's a very unique take on the iberian branch of vulgar latin