බෙංගාලි (/bɛŋˈɡɔːli/),[6] එහි අන්තර් නාමය බංග්ලා මගින් ද හැඳින්වේ (বাংলা Bengali pronunciation: [ˈbaŋla]), ක ඉන්දු-ආර්ය භාෂාව]] සහ ඉන්දියානු උපමහාද්වීපයේ බෙංගාල කලාපයේ භාෂා භාෂාව. It is the most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India, after Hindi. With approximately 228 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers,[1][7] Bengali is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world.[8][9]
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