Bengali (aka bangla) is spoken in eastern india and bangladesh by over 200 million speakers. It is linguistically related to sanskrit and has had a rich history as a literary language since the close of the … Bengali or bangla is an indo-aryan language of the eastern indian subcontinent, evolved from the magadhi prakrit, päli and sanskrit languages.

This is indicative of the fact that bangla had already been standardized and was one of the influential tongues which was regarded as the lingua franca of the geographic area that was known as bengal. Bangla is the state language of bangladesh and one of 18 languages listed in the indian constitution. It is the administrative language of the indian states of tripura and west bengal as well as one of the …