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Bengali languageIndo-Aryan language spoken principally in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Bengali has more speakers—some 190 million—than all but a handful of other languages of the world. Like other Modern Indo-Aryan languages, Bengali has drastically reduced the complex inflectional system of Old Indo-Aryan (see Sanskrit language). It has virtually dropped grammatical gender and fixed stress on the initial syllable of a word or phrase. Bengali was the first of the Indian languages to adopt Western secular literary styles, such as fiction and drama. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 21, according to that day's Khaleej Times, Bangladesh paid homage to the memory of seven people killed 51 years earlier while protesting in support of the national Bengali language, which then-ruling Pakistani officials had refused to make an official language. ``Pather's'' compelling, open-minded honesty made it the first Indian film to draw a worldwide audience - it won a Best Human Document citation at the Cannes Film Festival - and the first in the minority Bengali language to gain wide recognition throughout the subcontinent. But it was Bengali language and culture that shaped our nationalism. |
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