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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.
Bengali is the national language in Bangladesh and second most spoken language in India. With about 250 million native and about 300 million total speakers worldwide, it is the seventh most spoken language in the world by total number of native speakers and the eleventh most spoken language by total number of speakers.