Historical eventOctober 32024

Bengali language

Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India

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When
Thursday, October 3 20242 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
21st century · 2020s
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What happened

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is a classical Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken by the Bengali people, native to the Bengal region as well as in Barak Valley in Assam and Tripura in South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025,

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October 3 2024 — 2 years ago, on a Thursday.

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