Language Situation in Bangladesh

This paper charts the language situation that exists in Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been known as a monolingual country since its independence in 1971, Bangia (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 Bangia, b) distribution of indigenous languages and c) trend of foreign language use in different social settings- are taken into consideration.