Historical Overview The Bengali language can trace its origins to the Sanskrit language, evolving over centuries through Middle Bengali into the modern standard dialect. The Mango Languages app has a fantastic introductory course on Bengali , and Mondly also has a Bengali course. Part of the Linguaboost Bengali course can also be found for free as a podcast. Bengali , or Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura by approximately 250 million speakers. Bengali (বাংলা) Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Bangladesh and northern Indian. There are about 250 million native speakers of Bengali , and another 41 million people speak it as a second language.
