Bengali with native speakers holds sole official and national language status Bengali with native speakers holds one of the official languages status Large diaspora of Bengali speakers (100,000+)
An Binengali, Bengali o Bangla usa nga Indo-Aryan nga yinakanan han sidlangan Indyan nga subcontinente, nga nagtikang ha mga Magadhi Prakrit ngan Sanskrit nga yinaknan.
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