Bengali Bengali is the language spoken by the people of West Bengal. The origin of this language is traced back to the tenth century. The ancestors of this language are the Indo-Aryan. The Bengali script originated from the Brahmi alphabets.
Bengali has two literary styles - Sadhubhasa and Chaltibhasa. Sadhubhasa is the traditional literary style based on the sixteenth century Middle Bengali. This style makes use of compound words as in Sanskrit.
Chaltibhasa is the dialect based style spoken in Bengal. Chaltibhasa makes use of colloquial words and phrases. Writers favor this style of Bengali. The great Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore composed the Indian National Anthem in Bengali. His literary work "Geetanjali", in Bengali, won him the Nobel Prize. Bengali is also spoken by the people of Bangladesh.
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