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Bangla Language - MSN Encarta |
 | | Bangla Language or Bengali Language, the national language of Bangladesh (Bangla), and the third most widely spoken language of India, being the principal language of West Bengal State, where it was known as Bengali. |
 | | Like Hindi, Bangla is a descendant of Sanskrit, and with Assamese and Oriya, is one of the Eastern group of Indo-Aryan languages. |
 | | Bangla developed, like Hindi, Gujarati, and numerous other Indian languages, out of the Middle Indic Prakrits, the regional vernaculars that the Indo-Aryan peoples used from about the 3rd century bc to the 10th century ad, the most prominent among which was Pali, the language of the sacred Buddhist scriptures. |
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