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  Clothes: Bangladeshis have diversified clothing preferences. Kurta or fatua and lungi are traditional casual wear for men. On formal occasions, men usually wear western-type dress or traditional punjabi-pijamas. Sharee is the main and traditional dress of women. Ladies usually wear sharees on formal and festive occasions. Silk, Jamdani, Muslin and exotic design cotton sharees are very popular in Bangladesh. Salwar Kameez is worn by ladies as casual wear.   Festivals& celebrations: Bangladesh is a land of festivity since time immemorial. Apart from religious festivals, there are a number of universal festivals in Bangladesh throughout the year. Some festivals are associated with harvesting, some are to celebrate the particular days or periods of the year, while some others mark the important national events, and so on. Wedding is celebrated in a very elaborate and colourful way in Bangladesh.   Performing art: The vibrancy of the culture of Bangladesh is manifested through perform

About language

  Language: Language constitutes an important element of culture and national identity of Bangladeshi people.  Bangla  is the mother language of the predominant ethnic community of the country, the  Bagalees . It is an Indo-European language, spoken not only in Bangladesh but also in the West Bengal and some other provinces of India.  About 300 million around the world speak Bangla as their mother language and native speakers of this language constitute seventh largest linguistic group in the world. The language dates back to well before the birth of Christ.Bangla is the state language of Bangladesh and the language is used extensively all over the country. Shortly after the creation of new States through partition of the Indian sub-continent, the authorities of Pakistan started pursuing highly discriminatory policy via-a-vis Bangla, the mother language of the largest community in the country at that time. In view of utter violation of the sanctity of the mother language by the Pakista