Bangla
Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India
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Summary
Bangla is a natural language[1]. Bangla ranks in the top 1% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,772 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Ethnic group: Bengali[3]
- Country: Bangladesh[4], India[5]
- Instance of: modern language[6]
- Subclass of: Bengali–Assamese[7]
- Writing system: Bangla alphabet[8], Bengali Braille[9]
- Part of: Classical Languages of India[10], Schedule languages of India[11]
- Commons category: Bengali language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: bn[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Bengali language[14]
- Language regulatory body: Bangla Academy[15], Bangla Akademi[16]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 19,200,000[17], 19,202,880[18], 106,000,000[19], 189,261,200[20], 242,659,750[21], 300,000,000[22]
- Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23], Encyclopedic Lexicon[24], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[25]
- Topic has template: Template:Bn icon[26], Template:Bengali language[27]
- Has characteristic: Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation in Bengali[28]
- Native label: বাংলা[29]
- Short name: банголӣ[30]
- Different from: Bangala[31], Bangali[32]
- Indigenous to: Bengali[33], Bangladesh[34], Assam[35], Bihar[36], Jharkhand[37], Odisha[38], Tripura[39], West Bengal[40]
- Female form of label: la langue bengalie[41]
- Studied by: Bangla studies[42]
- Has grammatical case: nominative case[43], accusative case[44], genitive case[45], locative case[46]
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Influence
Things named for Bangla include Bangladesh[47], a sovereign state[48], in Bangladesh[49], founded in 1971[50].
Why It Matters
Bangla has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] Bangla is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]
Entities named for Bangla include Bangladesh[47], a sovereign state[48], in Bangladesh[49], founded in 1971[50].