Bengali or Bangla, language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.

Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages of the world.

Bengali has more speakers-some 190 million-than all but a handful of other languages of the world.

Like other Modern Indo-Aryan languages, Bengali has drastically reduced the complex inflectional system of Old Indo-Aryan.

Its direct ancestor is a form of Prakrit or Middle Indo-Aryan which descended from Sanskrit or Old Indo-Aryan.

Sanskrit was the spoken as well as the literary language of Aryandom until circa 500 B.C., after which it remained for nearly two thousand years the dominant literary languages as well as the lingua franca among the cultured and the erudite throughout the subcontinent.

But the spoken language conditioned by the regional linguistic and ethnic environments took up the different regional New Indo-Aryan languages.

The emergence of these New Indo-Aryan speeches was not all synchronized.

But some of them, including Bengali, certainly originated by the middle of the tenth century at the latest.

Forty five different languages are spoken by different communities in Assam.

The state is the meeting place of three major language families: Austroasiatic, Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European.

Bengali phrases, expressions and words most commonly used in conversations.

History Of Bangla Language