diff --git a/crates/gpui/src/text_system/line_wrapper.rs b/crates/gpui/src/text_system/line_wrapper.rs
index 07df35472b0bd3f91b8096439ed82cf811b45c77..9a7d10133bb9bd57b86c3e08e1a21e47fec38b96 100644
--- a/crates/gpui/src/text_system/line_wrapper.rs
+++ b/crates/gpui/src/text_system/line_wrapper.rs
@@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ impl LineWrapper {
         matches!(c, '\u{1E00}'..='\u{1EFF}') || // Latin Extended Additional
         matches!(c, '\u{0300}'..='\u{036F}') || // Combining Diacritical Marks
 
+        // Bengali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_(Unicode_block))
+        matches!(c, '\u{0980}'..='\u{09FF}') ||
+
         // Some other known special characters that should be treated as word characters,
         // e.g. `a-b`, `var_name`, `I'm`, '@mention`, `#hashtag`, `100%`, `3.1415`,
         // `2^3`, `a~b`, `a=1`, `Self::new`, etc.
@@ -856,6 +859,10 @@ mod tests {
         assert_word("АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОП");
         // Vietnamese (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/23245)
         assert_word("ThậmchíđếnkhithuachạychúngcònnhẫntâmgiếtnốtsốđôngtùchínhtrịởYênBáivàCaoBằng");
+        // Bengali
+        assert_word("গিয়েছিলেন");
+        assert_word("ছেলে");
+        assert_word("হচ্ছিল");
 
         // non-word characters
         assert_not_word("你好");