| Spoken by: | ~ 230 million |
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| Spoken in: | Bangladesh, West Bengal in India . |
| Language family: | Indo-Aryan |
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Bengali is written in Bengali script which is one of the Indic scripts.
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The Foreign Service Institute has classified Bengali as a "Hard" language. It is estimated that learning Bengali to a Professional Working Proficiency in the language (a score of Speaking-3/Reading-3 on the Interagency Language Roundtable scale) will take an average of 44 weeks (1100 class hours).[1]
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- ↑ U.S. Department of State; FSI's Experience with Language Learning; https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/c78549.htm