Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Russia
  
Second Language
India
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Chakma
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Dialect 2
Hajong
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Rarhi
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million
  
9
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
196.00 million
  
7
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million
  
16
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
  
Russki
  
French Name
bengali
  
russe
  
German Name
Bengali
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
  
Russians
  
Origin
1000–1200 CE
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Indic
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Bengali
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bn
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ben
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ben
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
ben
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
beng1280
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic