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Learn Bengali: Bengali alphabet chart and letters

Learning Bengali language Bengali

Bengali

Bengali

About Bengali

Bengali is one of the 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the official language of West Bengal and Tripura, and of the Barak Valley districts of Assam. The 2011 Census counted 9.72 crore people in India whose mother tongue it is. It is written in the Bengali script. The Government of India declared it a classical language in 2024. It is India's second most spoken language, after Hindi, and the national language of Bangladesh.

To go further: Bharatavani, the portal of India's languages run by the Central Institute of Indian Languages, has dictionaries, primers and books in Bengali.

  • Sahitya Akademi: India's national academy of letters (Ministry of Culture): books, translations and the yearly awards in Bengali and the other languages of India

Sources: Census of India 2011, Language (Paper 1 of 2018), speakers of the scheduled languages; the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule; classical languages, Ministry of Culture (Press Information Bureau, 3 October 2024).