Bengali should not be a language of the UN. This is another case of - "hey! this month this new claim makes us look good!"
There is much more to the criteria of what makes a UN language the ability to make babies. If we get UN language status the Communists of Calcutta will claim the resurrection of Lenin is imminent and the politicians of Dhaka will claim the resurrection of Mujib is imminent.
I'd rather Hindi or Gobbledygook got UN status than watch our political henchmen congratulate each other if Bangali gets UN status.
"Dhostho dheksos! Bollam na!. Shara prithibee amadher nethri ke shomman koreh. Hey bachu - cha kuthai? Haram jada chor kabi?"
Half our country still can't figure out what time it is!
Maybe if Bangla gets UN status the world will finally be able to learn something from us.
Like how to sing a million songs without singing about people or issues.
akash akash akah, jago jago jago, desh desh desh, nodhi nodhi nodhi, jaago jaago jaago, brishti brishti brishti, prem buji na buji na buji.
Have I lost the plot? I sure have. Along with the rest of my country.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Salam Kst <kst.salam@...> wrote:
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> Bengali to be made an official UN language.Bangladesh's
> parliament made its call in April. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina argued
> in support of the motion before the General Assembly in September. Bengali is spoken by more than 250 million people around the world. The UN has six official languages - English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Arabic. English and French are the daily working languages of the organisation, although English is more frequently used than French. 'Proud'The West Bengal state assembly resolution was adopted unanimously on Monday. "Thousands
> have died for the cause of this language. It is our mother tongue and
> we are proud of it," West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya
> said after the resolution was adopted. The West Bengal
> government has now asked the Indian government to forward the appeal to
> the UN. India's main language, Hindi, is not one of the UN languages. "The
> Bangla bhasha (Bengali language ) is spoken by over 250 million people
> worldwide, primarily in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West
> Bengal," Ms Hasina told the UN General Assembly in September. "Given
> the rich heritage of Bangla language, and its singular place as a
> symbol of people's faith in the power of languages to sustain cultures,
> and indeed the identity of nations, I seek support of the membership of
> the UN General Assembly for its acceptance as an official language of
> the United Nations," she said. Sheikh Hasina requested the West
> Bengal government and Bengali ministers in the Indian cabinet to "push
> forward" the case for Bengali. Support for the plea to declare
> Bengali as an official language of the UN has come from the Indian
> states of Assam and Tripura, both of which have a sizeable
> Bengali-speaking community. While not widely spoken outside the
> region, Bengali is the language of famed poet Rabindranath Tagore, who
> won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Bangladesh observes
> a language martyrs day on 21 February to remember those who fell to
> Pakistani bullets on that day in 1952 as they pushed for recognition of
> Bengali as an official language of Pakistan. Bengalis in Assam
> and north-east India observe 19 May as their language martyrs day to
> remember the 11 Bengalis who were killed in police firing in the
> southern Assamese town of Silchar while fighting for their language
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