Bengali
nounEtymology Equivalent to Bengal + -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙালি (baṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).
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A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.
Bengali
adj/bɛŋˈɡɔːli/ · /bɛŋˈɡɑli/
Etymology Equivalent to Bengal + -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙালি (baṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).
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Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.
- Ethnologue, the web-based publication, estimates that there are around 41 languages in Bangladesh and all of them are living. However, 8 of them are in danger of extinction. These include Khiang, Murong, Bawm, Pangkhua among others. It is ironic to think that a nation that fought for the right to speak a language, the first recorded instance of this in history, is the same nation that internally follows an agenda of Bengali supremacy.2016 February 19, Ahmad Ibrahim, “How to Kill a Language”, in The Daily Star:
- Derived terms
- Anglo-Bengali, Bengali alphabet, Bengali script, non-Bengali