Dear All,

Let me share my observation regarding the Bnagla Code-point repertoire (pardon me, if my observation sounds naïve!)—

098C (ঌ)—This so-called vocalic letter was never ever in use in Bangla. This was inherited from the Nāgarī (I prefer not to use the epithet "Deva" before Nāgarī as historically there is no element of divinity in the script) script. Even in Sanskrit its use was limited to a solitary verb root √kḷp- "to be adapted" and a few of its conjugated forms, e.g. Vedic form cākḷpé in 3rd person Singular Perfect, Desiderative form cikḷpsati, etc. (Whitney, 1997: 24) In Bangla this was blindly copied from Nāgarī. It does not even have any historical or archaic value in Bangla writing system (for a detailed discussion see Sarkar, 2016ː 104-110). Moreover there is high risk of confusing this letter with the symbol for Bangla numeral 9 (fortunately numerals are disallowed hereǃ)—these two are awfully similar. Inclusion of this letter has no valid argument whatsoever. This should be disallowed as per IDNA protocol.

Except this rest is fine!

Best

Rajib Chakraborty

References:

1. Sarkar, Pabitra. 2016. “A Commonsense Linguistic Note on the Sanskrit Alphabet”. In Bhattacharyya, Chandan & Sen, Subhrajit etds. 2016 Śodhanidhiḥ, Benaras Mercantile Co. & Gourbanga University, pp. 104-110.

2. Whitney, William Dwight. 1997. The Roots, Verb-forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language. 1^st edn in 1885. Delhiː Motilal Banarasidass Publishers Private Limited.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Akshat Joshi <akshatj@cdac.in> wrote:

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Dear All,

We have created an initial set of code-point repertoire for Bangla.

Your feedback/comments are solicited.

We have planned to finalize the Bangla code-point repertoire by 17th of July '16, so your early responses would enable the detailed discussions and timely finalization.
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Akshat Joshi
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