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Language code: ben

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ben

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The table below provides technical details for the Bengali language, designated by the ben code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

ben

Name

Official

Bengali

Native

বাংলা

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Rarhi (Nadia/Standard)VarendriRangpuriDhakaiyaNoakhali
Related languages
AssameseOdiaMaithiliHindiChittagonian
Key facts
Employs an abugida called the Bengali scriptPossesses two principal literary registers, Sadhu Bhasha and Cholit BhashaRoughly two-thirds of its core vocabulary is inherited from Sanskrit, with notable Persian, Arabic and English borrowingsInternational Mother Language Day (21 February) commemorates the 1952 Bengali Language MovementRabindranath Tagore became the first non-European Nobel laureate (1913) for works chiefly written in Bengali
Sample phrase

হ্যালো, তুমি কেমন আছো?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Bengali language, identified by the code ben, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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