Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla (IPA: ) is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages.Bengali is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. With nearly 230 million total speakers, Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages (ranking 5th or 6th in the world). Bengali is the primary language spoken in Bangladesh and is the second most widely spoken language in India. Along with Assamese, it is geographically the most eastern of the Indo-Iranian languages.
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