Tulasi <tulasird at gmail dot com> wrote:
It might be appropriate, if some groups prefer "Bangla" as the
English name, to submit a request to the ISO 639 authorities to have
this added as an additional name (not a name change).
Don't you think it is good idea to first see what the two standards
say?
One standard comes from Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and the other
from West Bengal Government (WBG).
That isn't how the ISO 639 registration authorities work. They aren't
consortia of representatives from government and industry, like the
Unicode Consortium. The ISO 639-2/RA is the U.S. Library of Congress
and the ISO 639-3/RA is SIL International, a non-profit organization
specializing in language development.
Why don't we ask both GOB and WBG to send the list letters/symbols
including cascaded conjuncts as per each standard?
(switching away briefly from the name of the language)
You can certainly do this if you like. I suppose you expect the two
lists to differ in some way from each other, or from Section 9.2 of The
Unicode Standard, Version 5.2. I'm not sure what this exercise is meant
to accomplish, but then that is becoming a recurring theme, isn't it?
I think each standard "letters/symbols including cascaded conjuncts"
will fit into A4 JPG image.
Whatever that means.
Though it was unintentional, as per link <
http://loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_changes.php > it looks like
"Bangladeshi" is correct in comparison to "Bangla".
Bihar --> Bihari
Himachal --> Himachali
Western Pahar --> Western Pahari
Nepal --> Nepali
So,
Bangladesh --> Bangladeshi
West Bengal --> West Bengali
both are correct.
If English were Esperanto, with perfectly regularized suffixes, this
logic might work. However:
England --> English
France --> French
Germany --> German
Netherlands --> Dutch
Uh, no.
I think "Bengalese" is English name.
Really.
Japan --> Japanese
Canton --> Cantonese
Chin --> Chinese
[!]
Sinhal --> Sinhalese
So,
Begal --> Bengalese
Not Bengalian, or Bengalish, or Bengalic?
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