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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, also called Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa, belongs to the Eastern group of the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. Along with Assamese, it is the easternmost of all Indo-European languages. In English, Bengali refers to both the language and the people who speak it.