Languages of Bangladesh

Bengali (Bangla), the national language of Bangladesh, belongs to the Indo-Aryan family and is related to Sanskrit. However, like ancient Indian Pali and various other forms of Prakrit, Bengali arose without the influence of the Aryan Brahman society. The ruler of Pala in Bengali (8th century to his 12th century) - who was Buddhist and whose religious language was Pali - did not prevent the emergence of a spoken language called Gaudiyaprakrit, a language from which Bengali evolved. bottom.

Bengali is the native language of almost the entire population of Bangladesh. However, indigenous minorities have their own languages ​​and dialects, including Tibeto-Burman. An Indo-European language, English is spoken in urban areas and among educated groups.

In Bengali he has two different styles.

Sadhu Basa, a literary style with many words derived from Sanskrit, and Kalit Basa, a colloquial style that is the standard medium of informal discourse, both oral and written. Until the 1930s, sadhu basa was used in all printed material, but now karit basa has become the basic form of modern literature. There are also several dialects. Bengali contains many loanwords from Portuguese, English, Arabic, Persian and Hindi.