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Bengali or Bangla , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages.

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Bengali Major language of the Indian subcontinent. It is spoken by virtually all of the c.129 million citizens of Bangladesh, and by 45 million in the Indian province of West Bengal. It belongs to the Indic branch of Indo-European languages.

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