Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to

Bengal Bengal ( ) is a Historical geography, historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the Eastern South Asia, eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Benga ...

, a large region in South Asia *

Bengalis Bengalis ( ), also rendered as endonym and exonym, endonym Bangalee, are an Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia. The current population is divi ...

, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region *

Bengali language Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. ...

, the language they speak **

Bengali alphabet The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet (, romanized: ''Bāṅlā bôrṇômālā'') is the standard writing system used to write the Bengali language, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal. An estimated 300 million ...

, the writing system **

Bengali–Assamese script The Bengali–Assamese script, sometimes also known as Eastern Nagri, is an eastern Brahmic script, primarily used today for the Bengali and Assamese language spoken in eastern South Asia. It evolved from Gaudi script, also the commo ...

*** Bengali (Unicode block), a block of Bengali characters in Unicode

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Abdul Wahid Bengali Abdul Wahid Bengali (; c. 1850–1905) was a 19th-century Muslim theologian, teacher and social reformer. He was one of the initiators of the Deobandi movement into Bengal, and co-founded Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam in 1896. Early ...

, 19th-century theologian *

Athar Ali Bengali Athar Ali (; 1891 – 6 October 1976) was a Bangladeshi Islamic activist, author, teacher and politician. He participated in the Indian independence movement, and was former president of the Nizam-e-Islam Party. Ali was also a ''khalifah'' of As ...

, politician and teacher * Bengali-Fodé Koita, Guinean footballer *

Bengali Keïta Bangaly Keita (born 1 May 1993) is a Guinean Association football, footballer who plays as a defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre back for Equatorial Guinean club Futuro Kings FC. He has been a member of the Guinea national footbal ...

, Guinean centre-back *

Bengali Singh Bengali Singh () is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Janata Dal Janata Dal () was an List of political parties in India, Indian ...

, Indian politician * Izzatullah Bengali, 18th-century Persian language author *

Mohamed Bengali Razak Mohammed Bengali (born 20 November 1988 in Abidjan Abidjan ( , ; N'Ko script, N'ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the largest city and the former capital of Ivory Coast. As of the Demographics of Ivory Coast, 2021 census, Abidjan's population wa ...

, Ivorian footballer *

Shah Nuri Bengali Shāh Nūrī Bengālī (, ; died 1785) was an 18th-century Bengali Islamic scholar and author from Dhaka. He is best known for his magnum opus, ''Kibrīt-e-Aḥmar'', which was written in the Persian language. Early life and education Shah Nu ...

, 18th-century Sufi and author

Places

Bengali Market Bengali Market is among the oldest and most popular markets in New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branch ...

, a market in New Delhi, India * Bengali, Nancowry, a village in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India

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* Bangali River, river in northern Bangladesh * , a ship launched in 1837 and wrecked in 1951 * List_of_ThunderCats_characters#Bengali, Bengali, a fictional cat-like humanoid alien character from ''ThunderCats''

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