2010/07/08 by Sameer ud Dowla Khan · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Artificial intelligence #Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development #Bengali #Computer science #Geography #History #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Multilingual Education and Policy #Philosophy #Variety (cybernetics)
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0025100310000071
openalex publication_date 2010/07/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Bengali ( /baŋla/) is an Indo-European language (Indic branch) spoken by over 175 million people in Bangladesh and eastern India (Dasgupta 2003: 352; Lewis 2009). The speech illustrated below is representative of the standard variety widely spoken in Dhaka and other urban areas of Bangladesh.