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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.
Bangladesh: Language The official language is Bangla, sometimes called Bengali. It is the first language of more than 98 percent of the population. It is written in its own script, derived from that of Sanskrit. Urdu is the language of several hundred thousand people, many of whom emigrated from India in the late 1940s.