More than 140 million people live in Bangladesh but more than 300 million people speak Bangla, which makes it one of the most spoken languages in the world.
Historically, Bangla not being officially recognized as one of Pakistan's languages back when East and West Pakistan existed led to the Bengali Language Movement. Bangladeshis, mostly students, fought for the recognition of their own language in February of 1952 and protested the "Urdu-only" policy. Years later the UNESCO declared February 21 as the International Mother Language Day.
Many people speaking Bangla means also many people reading and writing in this language. This is reason enough for multinational companies, like Coca-Cola, to present their products in both English and Bangla.
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