Bengali Translator
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About Bengali
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language with roots going back over a thousand years to the Magadhi Prakrit and Pali languages. It is the national language of Bangladesh and an official language of several Indian states, most notably West Bengal. Approximately 265 million people speak Bengali worldwide.
Bengali uses its own script, the Bengali-Assamese script, which is an abugida descended from the ancient Brahmi script. The language has a rich literary tradition, including the works of Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature. Notably, the Bengali Language Movement of 1952, in which protesters died defending their right to speak Bengali, led to the establishment of International Mother Language Day by UNESCO.