Bengal

Bengali or Bengali (Bengali: বাংলা, Bangla) is an Indo-Iranian language of South Asia by the Bengal is spoken.

The language has from Sanskrit developed.

Content

 * 1 Geography and number of speakers
 * 2 Literature
 * 3 Classification
 * 4 Grammar
 * 5 See also

Geography and number of speakers
Bengali is native in an area in South Asia known as Bengal and Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal covers. There are also significant Bengali-speaking communities in the Indian states of Assam and Tripura and in immigrant populations in the West and the Middle East . Bengali is in terms of number of speakers of the second language in India, after the related Hindi .

With over 200 million speakers, it is the 4th or 5th language in the world (after Mandarin, the Spanish , the English and Hindi ).

[Literature edit ]
Bengali has a rich literary tradition. Many of the most famous literature of India is written in this language. So was Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Asian a Nobel Prize was awarded, a Bengal and he wrote much of his work in his native language.

Classification [ edit ]
The language is among the Bengali-Assamese language group, which in turn belongs to the eastern group of Indian languages. Bengali is therefore most related to the Assamese .

Grammar [ edit ]
Bengali has called a Subject-object-verb (verb in the back of the meaning) and has the use of both pre- and postpositions . There are three levels of politeness (polite, relaxed and intimate) with corresponding verb conjugations. The language has no grammatical gender .