22.3931, Media: How do you spell West Bengal's new name?

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Subject: 22.3931, Media: How do you spell West Bengal's new name?

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Date: 08-Oct-2011
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: How do you spell West Bengal's new name?


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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:22:28
From: Brent Woo [bwoo at linguistlist.org]
Subject: How do you spell West Bengal's new name?

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In August of 2011, the administration of the Indian state of West Bengal voted 
to change the official name to "West Bengal" in Bengali. The problem is there is 
no convenient way (yet) to represent this in publications in English, or in any 
other language other than Bengali, which requires transliteration of some sort. 

Already in the media we see variants such as Paschim Banga, Poshchim 
Bangla, Poshchim Bongo... etc. 

Transliteration has always been an imperfect art, but this blogger Antariksh 
Botale wonders if there are any alternatives. 

http://www.linguistrix.com/blog/?p=44 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Translation
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): Bengali (ben)





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