Geographic distribution of the Bengali language in India and Bangladesh

2806 x 2080

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‘Is there mutual intellibility to some extent between Bengali and Hindi?

(Native/good Bengali speaker, poor Hindi speaker)

Not really for the most part. My Hindi vocab is much smaller than my Bengali, so when I have to guess what the Hindi word is by knowing the Bengali word (think of English/French words with Latin roots), I can for some of the bigger/more complex words, but a lot of common words don’t even have a cognate, partially due to the Austroasiatic substratum in East Aryan languages.’

Bangladesh is over 20,000 square miles smaller than South Dakota, but has a population close to 200 times larger

992 x 941

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‘Bangladesh is size of Nepal and population of Russia’

Railway map of South Asia (1915)

9570 x 9328

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‘TIL I learned you can take a train to Sri Lanka’–RitaRaccoon

Sub-branches of the Bengali-Assamese languages. The map is based on the historical ranges

[3095 × 2529]

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Languages of Bangladesh

[1115 x 1248]

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‘Isn’t Chittagonian/Rohingya considered a different language from Bengali?’–holytriplem

Forests and other wooded lands of Bangladesh

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1786 map of Bengal, Bahar, Oude & Allahabad : with part of Agra and Delhi - by James Rennell

[9761 x 6687]

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1950 map of Pakistan

[8699 x 7029]

source

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“Article states that the arsenic was from “superficial artisan wells” that leeched naturally present arsenic from the soil into the water supply”–madladchemist

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