United nations has a international mother language day, a day to celebrate the diversity of languages. You can see its page here: http://www.un.org/en/events/motherlanguageday/
If you kindly look at the third paragraph, you can see that "International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The date represents the day in 1952 when students demonstrating for recognition of their language, Bangla, as one of the two national languages of the then Pakistan, were shot and killed by police in Dhaka, the capital of what is now Bangladesh." You can see here that the name of the language used by UN is "Bangla". And the international mother language day is celebrated on the date when some of its speakers gave up their lives to bring to others the right to speak in their mother tongue. -- 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
