[Bug 991002] Re: Change name for bn-BD from 'Bengali(Bangladesh)' to 'Bangla(Bangladesh)')

[shafin]

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"

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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)

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