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Bengali medical interpreters

AI-powered medical interpretation, in real time, in Bengali, on the devices your teams already carry, in seconds.

Dialects supported by Opalite:Standard BengaliSylhetiChittagonian

There are 373,200 speakers of Bengali in the United States.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

New York

144,300Bengali speakers

0.8% of residents · #1 nationwide

Darker states have more Bengali speakers; shading is logarithmic, relative to the state with the most speakers.

Bengali speakers by state
StateSpeakers
New York144,300
Michigan23,460
Virginia15,870
West Virginia461

State counts reflect the 15 most reported non-English languages in each state’s ACS table. States where Bengali falls outside the top 15 are shown without shading; the national total includes every state.

151,600

speakers of Bengali speak English less than “very well”: the federal threshold for needing language assistance.

41%

of Bengali speakers in the U.S. meet that limited-English definition.

144,300

people speak Bengali at home in New York alone.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

Common questions about Bengali interpretation

Three states hold 49% of the nation’s Bengali speakers, and Bengali ranks in the published top-15 language tables of 4 states.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2017-2021 American Community Survey 5-year estimates.

New York has the largest Bengali-speaking population (144,300 speakers), followed by Michigan (23,460) and Virginia (15,870) (ACS 2017-2021).

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