Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language of the eastern Indian subcontinent, evolved from the Magadhi Prakrit, Pāli and Sanskrit languages. Bengali is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Bengali is the English translation of Bangla, which refers to both a language and a people. Thus the term usually denotes a person who lives in Bengal and speaks in the Bengali language. Thus the term usually denotes a person who lives in Bengal and speaks in the Bengali language. Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language with around 300 million speakers mainly in Bangladesh, and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and South Assam. Bengali is the national and official language of Bangladesh, and one of the official languages in India.