Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia. It is the national and official language of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and the official language of several northeastern states of the Republic of India, including West Bengal, Tripura, Assam (Barak Valley) and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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  • Like many other Indian languages, Bengali has three levels of second-person pronouns: tui, tumi and apni, in increasing order of formality.
    • Sukanta Chaudhuri (2002). View from Calcutta. Orient Blackswan. p. 125. ISBN 978-81-8028-000-9. 
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