The Bengali Language

• Bengali is an eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken by nearly 300 million people worldwide.
• It is the official language of Bangladesh and the second most spoken language in India.
• Bengali has a rich literary tradition, including the works of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

About Lakemba

Lakemba is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lakemba is located 15 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Canterbury. Lakemba is in the Cooks River watershed. This river is tidal up to the edge of Lakemba.

A bike and walking trail takes walkers and cyclists all the way from nearby Belfield to the east along the Cooks River, to where it flows into Botany Bay. In the opposite direction the bike and walking trail goes north to Olympic Park and Homebush Bay on the Parramatta River. The area was at an early time in its colonial history originally known as Potato Hill because potatoes were cropped here. Land grants by the new colonial government began in Lakemba about 1810. Samuel Hockley was granted 50 acres (200,000 m2), which he called Essex Hill Farm, after his home county in England. The suburb was known as Belmore South until 1910.

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