Bengali

বাংলা

Main information

Family

Indo-European

Branch

Indo-Iranian

Group

Indo-Aryan

Indic

Eastern zone

Bengali-assamese

Native speakers

250 000 000

Status

National

Region

Bangladesh, India

Characteristic

SOV; postpositions; noun head both initial and final; 3 genders: male, female, neuter; content q-word initial and final; clause constituents indicated by case-marking (5 cases) and word order; verb affixes mark person, number; definite article affix; tense; passives and voice; causatives; comparatives; non-tonal; 35 consonant and 5 vowel phonemes; stress on first syllable.

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