This is a tough one. Everyone who uses बोडो/बोड़ो seems to be using it
because of they try to guess the pronunciation from Latin spelling. I would
suggest to go with " बर' ".

Regards
Satdeep Gill

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On 5 April 2017 at 12:52, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Reminder :)
>
>
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> 2017-03-31 21:34 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> At the langcom meeting in Berlin today Satdeep and Miloš brought up the
>> topic of adding support for translating into the Bodo language.
>>
>> It's easy to do technically, but I want to use this as an opportunity to
>> make sure that we have the autonym written correctly.
>>
>> * The current language database file
>> <https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.uls/blob/master/data/langdb.yaml#L78>
>> in the UniversalLanguageSelector extension lists it as "बड़ो".
>> * The English Wikipedia article
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_language> says "बर'". Note the
>> apostrophe in the end. I remember reading somewhere (probably the InScript
>> standards files) that apostrophe in a part of the orthography of some
>> languages of India, so it sounds possible.
>> * The main page of the Bodo Incubator
>> <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/brx/%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF>
>> also has "बर'", as does the article about the language
>> <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/brx/%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%B0%27_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B5>
>> .
>> * To confuse things completely, Ethnologue
>> <https://www.ethnologue.com/language/brx> says "बोडो‎". (It also gives
>> the main English name of the language as "Bodo").
>>
>> So what is correct?
>>
>>
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>> ‪“We're living in pieces,
>> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
>>
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