

It is also the second official language of the Indian state of Jharkhand since September 2011. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language.īengali is the official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language.

With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world.

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. Bengali ( / b ɛ n ˈ ɡ ɔː l i/ ben- GAW-lee), generally known by its endonym Bangla ( বাংলা, Bengali pronunciation: ), is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
