Bangla Alphabet
The letters and characters of Bangla written in the Bangla script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 279,893,704 people read or write it across 5 countries.
Standard characters
The minimal set of characters required for Bangla — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.
Additional Characters
Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.
Punctuation characters
The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.
Where Bangla is read
Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Bangla in the Bangla script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.
Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).
| Country | Estimated readers | Share of population |
|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | 165,323,060 | 98% |
| India | 114,139,530 | 8.1% |
| United Kingdom | 273,836 | 0.4% |
| Canada | 128,023 | 0.33% |
| Nepal | 29,255 | 0.09% |
Bangla — facts
| Font coverage | 13 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 68 standard characters; 7 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026. |
|---|---|
| Script | Bengali |
| Unicode blocks | Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Devanagari, Bengali, General Punctuation |
| People | About 279,893,704 people read or write Bangla in the Bangla script — mostly in Bangladesh, India, United Kingdom, Canada, Nepal. |
Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.