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It’s ‘Bangla’ not ‘Bengali’
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Poe'ten'ry [poems of ten lines]
If Hindi is ‘Hindi’ in Hindi,
If Hindi is Hindi in English,
Then Bangla should be ‘Bangla’ in English,
It should not be ‘Bengali’.
I find it rather insulting,
When it comes to the pronunciation,
Of the very word in question,
It’s high time we realised this thing.
Our mother tongue is ‘Bangla’ not Bengali,
It must be maintained by each one certainly.
Interesting
I've always thought it would be more polite if we called countries the names the natives know it by.
Germany = Deutschland
Japan = Nihon
America = whatever name it was known by the Native Americans
Thank you
:)