Hi bubulle, Thanks for your well researched opinion. As the original reporter of this bug, I just want to offer some small observations on your post.
Firstly, "La langue de la République est le français. " is from the french version of the constitution. We do not necessarily requested use of the name "বাংলা" in native language. We just want the English name that is used by the republic. Secondly, the wikipedia reference you mentioned is wrong. That is not your fault, but if you look at the original text of the constitution which is referred at the end of the wikipedia page at http://www.parliament.gov.bd/Constitution_English/index.htm , you'll see that the text contains "Bangla", not "Bengali". And this is from the official English translation of the constitution, not the Bangla version. Just for a little more reference, there is an effort to use Bangla as one of the official languages of the United Nations, you can see at the news reports that English language newspapers refer to the language as Bangla: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-19/south- asia/31076849_1_sheikh-hasina-bangladesh-parliament-official-languages . >From the English speech of the prime minister hosted at UN site, you can see that there is no mention of Bengali, but Bangla is used instead: http://www.un.org/en/ga/64/generaldebate/pdf/BD_en.pdf Even BBC calls its Bangla language service "BBC Bangla"- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Bangla ,and there are also a lot of examples where native speakers of English are starting to use "Bangla" instead of "Bengali". Windows 8 also uses the name "Bangla", not "Bengali". Please see this screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/100483406/Bangla_Win_8.JPG All these supports my original statement that the official name of the language in English remains Bangla. This also goes on to show that a lot of high profile organizations are starting to adopt the official name instead of the colonial one. About Ethnolouge, the problem is that they are using the old name, and that probably contributed to that name being used in ISO standards, of which they are the maintainer. Actually even in ethnologue if you dig a little deeper and see the pages for some of the languages closely related with Bangla, you'll see mentions of language names like Sylhetti Bangla : http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=syl or Bahe Bangla, Anchalit Bangla: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=rkt but no mention of Bahe Bengali etc. So the derivative languages are already using Bangla, not Bengali. Again my sincere thanks to you and also to gunnarhj for taking a look at this bug report. I really hope you'll start using "Bangla" in ubuntu instead of "Bengali" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to language-selector in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991002 Title: Change name for bn-BD from 'Bengali(Bangladesh)' to 'Bangla(Bangladesh)') Status in “iso-codes” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “localechooser” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “iso-codes” package in Debian: Won't Fix Bug description: The official name for the state language for Bangladesh is Bangla, as detailed on section 3, part 1 of the Bangladesh constitution (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/research/bangladesh-constitution.pdf). However, language selector continues to refer to this language as Bengali (Bangladeh). While Bengali has been historically used as the english name for the language during colonial periods, the name 'Bangla' is more widely used nowadays. It is also the name with which native speakers identify the language. This package uses Bengali(Bangladesh) as the identifier for language code bn-BD. Please change the name to Bangla(Bangladesh). ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Apr 29 16:14:25 2012 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=bn_BD:bn:en_IN:en_GB:en PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=bn_BD.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: language-selector UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-19 (41 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iso-codes/+bug/991002/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
