बाङ्गला
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बाङ्गला आर्य-भाषा परिवारस्य एका भाषा. Bengali is the language spoken by the populations of Bangladesh and the neighboring state of West Bengal in India. There are also significant Bengali-speaking communities in Assam (another Indian state also neighboring West Bengal and Bangladesh), and in immigrant populations in the West and the Middle East. The standard form of cholit bhaashaa, the primary spoken dialect, is molded on "Calcutta Bengali".
Bengali is an English word referring to both the language and the people speaking the language; in the Bengali language itself the tongue is called Bangla, (বাঙলা), a term now finding more usage in English; in Bangla, the people are called Bangali(বাংলা). The traditional area of habitation of Bengali peoples is called Bengal in English and Bongo (usually transliterated as "Banga") or Bangla in Bengali ("Bangadesh" and "Bangladesh" were terms used for the entire region pre-partition for the region). The region is now broken into two parts, the western part, West Bengal, (or Poshchim Bongo) being a state in India and the eastern part, Bangladesh (East Bengal or Purbo Bongo), being an independent country.