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| Silver Taka from the
Sultanate of Bengal, circa 1417. |
Bengali
Bengali is the most eastern Indo-Aryan language from
South Asia. It developed from a language called Pali.
Bengali is spoken in Bangladesh and in the Indian states
of West Bengal and Tripura. |
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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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Almost all of the people in Bangladesh speak Bengali,
and many famous books and poems are written in Bengali.
Rabindranath Tagore was a famous poet who wrote in
Bengali. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The
national anthems of both India and Bangladesh were
written in this language. |
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