Bengali people are the majority population of bengal, the region of northeastern south asia that generally corresponds to the country of bangladesh and the indian state of west bengal The bengalis speak dialects of bangla, as they call the bengali language. Bengali exhibits diglossia between the written and spoken forms of the language Two styles of writing, involving somewhat different vocabularies and syntax, have emerged The bengali writing system is the bengali abugida, a cursive script which is a variant of the eastern nagari script. Bengali wordlists, bengali grammar notes and links to other online bengali language learning activities.
There are about 250 million native speakers of bengali, and another 41 million people speak it as a second language. Bengali is the 5th most spoken language in the world There are about 220 million native speakers and about 250 million total speakers of bengali It is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, ranking seventh.
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