Language Information
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Bengali
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বাংলা ''''
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India , Bangladesh , and several others
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Eastern South Asia
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230 million (189 million native)
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http://encartamsncom/media_701500404/Languages_Spoken_by_More_Than_10_Million_Peoplehtml
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Languages spoken by more than 10 million people
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http://wwwethnologuecom/ethno_docs/distributionaspby=country
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Statistical Summaries
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http://www2ignatiusedu/faculty/turner/languageshtm
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The World's Most Widely Spoken Languages
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Indo-European
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Indo-Iranian
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Indo-Aryan
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Eastern Group
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Bengali-Assamese
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Bengali Script
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,<br /> ( West Bengal and Tripura )
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Bangla Academy (Bangladesh)<br/> Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (West Bengal)
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"http://banglapediaorg/HT/B_0137htm" class="copylinks" target="_blank">Bangla language in The graphs usually hang from a superposed horizontal line called the ''matra'' (not to be confused with its Hindi cognate ''matra'', which denotes the dependent forms of Hindi vowels)
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Haldar
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Gopal
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2000
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Languages of India
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National Book Trust, India
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81-237-2936-7
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Alam
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M
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2000
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Bhasha Shourôbh: Bêkorôn O Rôchona (The Fragrance of Language: Grammar and Rhetoric)
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S N Printers, Dhaka
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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
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2003
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Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh
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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka
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Cardona
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G
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Jain
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D
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2003
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The Indo-Aryan languages
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RoutledgeCurzon, London
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Chatterji
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SK
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1921
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Bengali Phonetics
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
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Chatterji
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SK
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1926
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The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language
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Calcutta Univ Press
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Ferguson
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CA
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Chowdhury
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M
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1960
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The Phonemes of Bengali
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Language, 36(1), Part 1
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Klaiman
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MH
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1987
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Bengali
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Bernard Comrie
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The World's Major Languages
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Croon Helm, London and Sydney
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0195065115
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Masica
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C
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1991
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The Indo-Aryan Languages
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Cambridge Univ Press
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Radice
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W
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1994
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Teach Yourself Bengali: A Complete Course for Beginners
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NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
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0844237523
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Ray
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P
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Hai
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MA
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Ray
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L
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1966
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Bengali language handbook
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Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington
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Sen
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D
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1996
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Bengali Language and Literature
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International Centre for Bengal Studies, Calcutta
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Bhattacharya
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T
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2000
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Bangla (Bengali)
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Encyclopedia of World's Languages: Past and Present (Facts About the World's Languages)
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WW Wilson, New York
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Gary, J and Rubino C
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http://wwwhomepagesuclacuk/~uclyara/bong_uspdf
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0824209702
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Baxter
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C
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1997
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Bangladesh, From a Nation to a State
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Westview Press
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0813336325
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