Bengali

Look up Bengali, bengalese, bengali, or Bengalee in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Bengali or Bengalese may refer to something of, from, or related to:

Location

• Bengal, South Asia's Bengali language dominated region
  • Bangladesh, a sovereign country
  • West Bengal, an Indian state
  • East Bengal, a noncontiguous province of Pakistan that later became Bangladesh
  • Eastern Bengal and Assam, a province of the British Raj
  • Bengal Presidency, province of the British Raj
  • Bengal Subah, province of the Mughal Empire
  • Bengal Sultanate, an independent sultanate

People

• Bengalis, a major ethnic and linguistic group in South Asia
• Bengali Muslims
• Bengali Hindus
• Bengali Buddhists

Culture

• Culture of Bengal
• Bengali language, the Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region.
• Bengali alphabet, the script used to write Bengali and a variant of Assamese
  • Bengali (Unicode block), a block of Bengali characters in Unicode

Other

• Bengali, Nancowry, a village in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, India
• Bengal cat, the hybrid cat breed, also called Bengali Cat
• Bangalla, a fictional country in the miniseries The Phantom
• Bengalee (ship)

See also

• All pages beginning with Bengali