The shorbornos represent six of the seven main vowel sounds of Bengali, along with two vowel diphthongs. Today, Bengali is the primary language spoken in Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken language in India. More recent studies suggest that the use of native and foreign words has been increasing, mainly because of the preference of Bengali speakers for the colloquial style. Dominant in the last group was Persian, which was also the source of some grammatical forms. It has been influenced by other language families prevalent in South Asia, notably the Dravidian, the Austroasiatic, and the Tibeto-Burman families, all of which contributed to Bengali vocabulary and provided the language with some structural forms.ĭictionaries from the early 20th century attributed slightly more than half of the Bengali vocabulary to native words i. With over million speakers, Bengali is the seventh most spoken native language in the world due to their population. It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of India. Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian Subcontinent. Spoken by more than million people as a first or second language, with some million Bengali speakers in Bangladesh about 85 million in India, primarily in the states of West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura and sizable immigrant communities in the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Middle East. It is regarded as one of the sweetest languages of the world after Spanish and Dutch. Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages of India.