Language
Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh. There are few thousand people of Pakistani or Bihari origin who speak Urdu, those people are stranded after the liberation war between Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) and Pakistan. Bihari people were actually from the state of Bihar and surrounding areas of India and they migrated to East Bengal or East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh) at the time of partition of India in 1947. These Bihari people were against formation of Bangladesh in 1971 as they favored Pakistan but after the war Pakistan refused to take them back. They actually use a mixed form of Urdu language, especially mixed with Bhojpuri, Bengali, Hindi and English.
English is widely used as the business language. Most of the educated people can speak and understand English. As English is used as medium of education in some educational institutions.
Munda, Domari, Romani, Telugu, Gujarati, Marwari and other minor languages are used by minority communities usually found in the cities.
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