diff --git a/gtk/emoji/bn.data b/gtk/emoji/bn.data
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..654c3186e2
Binary files /dev/null and b/gtk/emoji/bn.data differ
diff --git a/gtk/meson.build b/gtk/meson.build
index ba719d4a30..bebcd8b6db 100644
--- a/gtk/meson.build
+++ b/gtk/meson.build
@@ -1032,6 +1032,7 @@ libgtk_dep = declare_dependency(sources: gtk_dep_sources,
                                 link_args: common_ldflags)
 
 foreach lang : [
+    'bn',
     'de',
     'da',
     'fr',