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Bengali
(Ben|gali)
Pronunciation:
/bɛŋˈgɔːli/
noun
(
plural
Bengalis
)
1
a native of Bengal.
2
[
mass noun
]
the Indic language of Bangladesh and West Bengal, spoken by some 200 million people. It is written in a script similar to the Devanagari script.
adjective
relating to Bengal, its people, or their language.
Origin:
from Hindi
baṅgālī
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