Note that the and phonemes come in both long and short variants, and that the is always long. The aforementioned vowels are in parentheses. Furthermore, development has occurred in Pakistani Bengali which has resulted in short vowels have a bit more open of a sound, as in Urdu and Punjabi. It also possesses a nasalised counterpart to every vowel, which may or may not be retained in vulgar speech. However, the main thing which sets Bengali apart from other nearby languages is its use of an inherent "ɔ" rather than a "ə". Furthermore, the varieties are not even written in the same script, making written communication between them near-impossible.īengali shares many of its phonemes with its sister Indo-Aryan languages and the ancient Sanskrit language. This is because of the artificial purging of Sanskrit words in Bangālī-e-Pāk, as Sanskrit words were once the largest contributors to the Bengali vocabulary. Though the spoken languages of Pakistani and Indian Bengal are rather similar, the standard, formal, written languages of the region are hardly intelligible from each other. Furthermore, the language is spoken among Bengali migrants who have moved to Western Pakistan. This obsolete variety was called Sādhu Bhāshā, "the holy man's language", and was artificially Sanskritised in a way which is opposite to the artificial Persianisation and Arabisation of Bangālī-e-Pāk.īengali is spoken in more places than simply Bengal-proper, such as the Bihar, Mizoram, Meghalaya, and Orissa states of India, as well as the northern Rakhine State of Burma. In fact, a third standard had once existed under wide use prior to the exit of the British from the subcontinent. However, despite the two-thirds of Bengali's speakers living within Pakistani Bengal, the language currently does not have any official status in government, though the government has ironically produced a standard variety of it.īengali is a pluricentric language, the two standard forms of the language being Bangālī-e-Pāk, literally "holy Bengali" in Persian, and Chalita Bhāshā, literally "running language" in Bengali, regulated in Pakistani and Indian Bengal respectively. It is a scheduled language of India, but also the de facto official language of Pakistani Bengal. Pakistan (Bengal as well as significant migrant communities in Islamabad )īengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in Greater Bengal by the Bengali ethnic group.