Bengali language
Indo-Aryan language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (āĻŦāĻžāĻāĻ˛āĻž, BÄáš lÄ [baÅËla] ), is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language...