Bengali or Bangla, the 7th largest language in the world, is spoken by over 265 million speakers in the South East Asian nation of Bangladesh, its neighboring Eastern Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, parts of Assam, the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, and the highly vibrant diasporas in New Delhi, London, Michigan, and New York City.īengali belongs to the Indo-Aryan sub-group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
