bengalis in English

noun
1
a native of Bengal.
The Indian Bengalis and the Bengali expatriates all over the world would pay almost anything to have Hilsha in their plate.
2
the Indic language of Bangladesh and West Bengal.
Though English continues to be a strong second language in Bangladesh, Bengali is the official language of government and education.

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1. The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolingustically Bengalis, an Indo-Aryan people who are predominantly Muslim.

2. On the assembly’s second day, ten candidates presented themselves for baptism —three Bengalis, three Hindustanis, one Bihari and three Anglo-Indians.

3. On 19 May 1961, 11 Bengalis were killed in police firing in Silchar Railway Station, Assam, while demanding state recognition of Bengali language.

4. “Welcome to Asansol, The City of Brotherhood.” One of West Bengal’s key cities after Kolkata, being on the edge of coal fields and industry has meant brotherhood: Hindi speakers, local Bengalis, and a …

5. Bengalis or Bangalis (Bengali: বাঙালি), also rendered as the Bengali people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to the Bengal region in South Asia.The population is divided between the independent country Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley.Most of them speak Bengali, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.