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Bengali or Bangla is the language in Bangladesh. The country name Bangladesh actually means âCountry of Banglaâ. Everyone in this country speak Bangla, except some tribal people in the hill-tract area.
The official language of Bangladesh is Modern Standard Bengali (Literary Bengali). It serves as the lingua franca of the nation, with 98% of Bangladeshis fluent in Standard Bengali or Bengali dialects as their first language. Chittagonian: spoken in the city of Chittagong and in much of the southeast of the country, it is often considered to be a dialect of Bengali, but both languages are mutually unintelligible to each other. 2  Hajong: originally a Tibeto-Burman language that has shifted over time to an Indic language.