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Language Situation in Bangladesh
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This paper charts the state of language situation that exists in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been known as a monolingual country since its independence in 1971, Bangla (or Bengali) being its only national and official language. Therefore multilingualism has not been a political issue in Bangladesh, though a situation beyond the monolingualism can be observed in the language situation of Bangladesh, if the three different scenes— a) distribution of regional varieties of Bangla, b) distribution of indigenous languages and c) trend of foreign language use in different social settings— are taken into consideration.
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Bangladesh, Language situation, Regional varieties of Bangla, Minority languages, Foreign language use

Introduction The aim of this paper is to chart the present state of language situation beyond monolingualism that exists in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been known as a monolingual country with the population of 150 million (approximately), Bangla (or Bengali) being its only national and official language since its independence in 1971. However, before the independence, the region now known as Bangladesh had been existed as a multilingual country for centuries throughout its social and political development. In the early period of history, there were various aboriginal speech communities including mainly the speakers of Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman languages distributed throughout the different regions of this country. The multilingual situation that had existed for millenniums changed in the later period with the settlement of the immigrant people into two phases. In the first phase, the Aryan speech communities immigrated into this region until the beginning of 1st Millennium. In the second phase, the Muslim people including Afgan, Arabic, Persian and Turkish speech communities

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