Bengali is the language that is spoken by people who live in Bangladesh and by many people in West Bengal
Bengali means belonging or relating to Bengal, or to its people or language. She married a Bengali doctor. A Bengali is a person who comes from Bangladesh or West Bengal
a native of Bengal (also its lingua franca) A people in steady decline since 1947 (the year of the partition of Bengal), in sharp decline since 1970s, it has made major contributions in the arts and sciences, recognized (inadequately) by Nobel Prizes and (adequately) by top prizes at international film festivals
a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus) of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people; "Bengali hills
Indo-Aryan language spoken principally in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Bengali has more speakers some 190 million than all but a handful of other languages of the world. Like other Modern Indo-Aryan languages, Bengali has drastically reduced the complex inflectional system of Old Indo-Aryan (see Sanskrit language). It has virtually dropped grammatical gender and fixed stress on the initial syllable of a word or phrase. Bengali was the first of the Indian languages to adopt Western secular literary styles, such as fiction and drama