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GDJ wrote:My short story Dog's Best Friend has just been published n Bengali webzine Sonajhuri:
http://www.sonajhuri.com/sona%2065/norm-but-spl-fmt/golpo07-5.htm
-Gareth
http://www.garethdjones.co.uk
Talib wrote:Lately I've been on an Indo-Iranian bent, and I sort of want to learn Bengali because of its rich literary tradition and its importance in the history of linguistic rights (the Bengali language struggle is the reason for the UN's International Mother Language Day). I would love to read the works of Rabindranath Tagore in the original as well. I think it's a very underrated language. However, I probably won't be able to learn it because I can't get used to the eastern Nagari script.
Talib wrote:How similar is it to Hindi and Urdu? I notice some words (like chãd - "moon") are the same but some are very different.
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