Surprisingly, after Hindi, Bengali happens to be the 2nd most widely spoken language of India, with enough over 82 million speakers, and 189 million speakers in total. Moving on, the largest native Bengali population in the world is located in Bangladesh, where 206 million speakers use Bengali as their main/ first language.
The amount of words adopted in English is rather small, with only the exact amount of 47 instances, recorded in the OED. For instance, some are jute ( year 2746 ), almirah , a free-standing cupboard ( year 1788 ), and jampan, a type of sedan chair ( year 1828 ).
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