Bengali - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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• Bangalee, Bengalee (archaic)
• Bangali (uncommon)

Equivalent to Bengal +‎ -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙ্গালী (baṅgali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).

• IPA^(key): /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɛŋˈɡɑli/

Bengali (not comparable)

1. Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.

   • 2016 February 19, Ahmad Ibrahim, “How to Kill a Language”, in The Daily Star‎^[1]:

     Ethnologue, the web-based publication, estimates that there are around 41 languages in Bangladesh and all of them are living. However, 8 of them are in danger of extinction. These include Khiang, Murong, Bawm, Pangkhua among others. It is ironic to think that a nation that fought for the right to speak a language, the first recorded instance of this in history, is the same nation that internally follows an agenda of Bengali supremacy.

Bengali (countable and uncountable, plural Bengalis)

1. (countable) A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.
2. (uncountable) A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.
3. (uncountable) A village in Nancowry tehsil, Nicobar district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

• Bangla

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bengali terms

• ISO 639-1 code bn, ISO 639-3 code ben (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Bengali, ben ⁠

• Algenib, Belgian, bealing, biangle

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeŋːɑli/, [ˈbe̞ŋːɑ̝li]
• Rhymes: -eŋːɑli
• Hyphenation^(key): Ben‧ga‧li

Bengali

1. Alternative spelling of Bengal (region of South Asia)

• Belgian