What is Bengali language?
{{Infobox language | name = Bengali Dialect | altname = Bangla Dialect | nativename = {{lang|bn|বাংলা উপভাষা}} | pronunciation = {{IPA-bn|ˈbaŋla||Bn-বাংলা.oga}} | region = [[Bangladesh]] and [[India]] | ethnicity = [[Assamese]] | speakers = 150{{ndash}}300{{nbsp}}million | date = 2017 | ref = <ref>{{cite book|title=The CBalto-onstitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh|chapter=Article 3. The state language|url=http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/sections_detail.php?id=367&sections_id=24550|website=bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd|publisher=Ministry of Law, The People's Republic of Bangladesh|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Scheduled Languages in descending order of speaker's strength - 2011|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011Census/Language-2011/Statement-1.pdf|publisher=[[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]]|date=29 June 2018}}</ref><ref name=EthnologueSp>{{e21|ben|Bengali}}</ref> | speakers2 = ([[first language|L1]] plus [[Second language|L2]] speakers) | familycolor = Indo-European | fam2 = [[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] | fam3 = [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] | fam4 = [[Magadhi Prakrit]] | fam5 = [[Eastern Indic|Eastern Zone]] | fam6 = [[Bengali-Assamese]] | ancestor = [[Abahattha]] | ancestor2 = Assamese | dia1 = see [[Bengali dialects]] | script = [[Eastern Nagari script]] ([[Bengali alphabet]])<br />[[Bengali Braille]] | sign = Bengali signed forms<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangla Sign Language Dictionary|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/251910320/Bangla-Sign-Language-Dictionary|website=www.scribd.com|access-date=12 September 2018|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308161943/https://www.scribd.com/doc/251910320/Bangla-Sign-Language-Dictionary|url-status=dead}}</ref> | nation = {{BAN|Bangladesh}}<br />{{IND|India}} (in [[West B