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Bengali  ( / b ɛ ŋ ˈ ɡ ɔː l i / ), [4]  also known by its  endonym   Bangla  ( UK :  / ˈ b ʌ ŋ l ə / ;  বাংলা ), is an  Indo-Aryan language  primarily spoken by the  Bengalis  in  South Asia . It is the official and most widely spoken language of  Bangladesh  and second most widely spoken of the 22  scheduled languages of India , behind  Hindi . In 2015, 160 million speakers were reported for Bangladesh, [1]  and the 2011 Indian census counted another 100 million. [5]  With approximately 260–300   million total speakers worldwide, [6]  Bengali is the  6th most spoken language by number of native speakers  and  7th most spoken language by total number of speakers  in the world. [7] [8] The  official  and  de facto   national language  of Bangladesh is Modern Standard Bengali (Literary Bengali). [9] [10] [11]  It serves as the  lingua franca  of the nation, with 98% of Bangladeshis being fluent in Bengali as their  first language . [12] [13]  Within India, Bengali is the official lan
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