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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.
In Bengali, the language is called Bangla (bangla means âlowâ). The direct ancestors of Bengali are Prakrit, and Sanskrit. The total number of speakers of Bengali worldwide is 189 million , making it the seventh most spoken language in the world after Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic, and Portuguese .