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The article also clearly mentions that "Bengalis will refer to the script of their language exclusively as the 'Bengali script'"; secondly you've removed the sourced instance, third it is the longstanding version, fourth your edit is not a [{WP:MINOR]] edit,and fifth you should seek a WP:CONSENSUS in the talk page per WP:BRD, so that it can be reworded Tags: Manual revert Reverted |
Tejoshkriyo (talk | contribs) m The reference indeed mentions "Bengalis will refer to the script of their language exclusively as the 'Bengali script'", because certainly an ethnic group will attribute the script/alphabet they utilise as THEIRS but it still disregards on what goes internationally and how people approach this script in general; "...the name 'Bengali script' dominates the global public sphere". The point still stands within the limitation of the reference and takes this terminology on a broader scale. |
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The '''Bengali–Assamese script''',<ref name="salomon41"/> sometimes also known as '''Eastern Nagri''',<ref>"The Eastern Nagri script was first created to write Sanskrit and later adopted by regional languages like Bengali and Assamese. The Bengali Unicode block of characters is created from the Eastern Nagri script and contains character variants, like for the 'r', that is different in Bengali and Assamese." {{harvcol|Simard|Dopierala|Thaut|2020|p=5f}}</ref> is an eastern [[Brahmic script]], primarily used today for the [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Assamese language|Assamese]] language spoken in [[eastern South Asia]]. It evolved from [[Gaudi script]], also the common ancestor of the [[Odia script|Odia]] and [[Tirhuta script|Trihuta scripts]].<ref>See "Parent Systems" on the right, and the citations therein.</ref><ref>{{harvcol|Salomon|1998|p=41}}</ref> It is commonly referred to as the ''Bengali script''
Besides, [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Assamese language|Assamese]] languages, it is also used to write [[Bishnupriya Manipuri]], [[Meitei language|Meitei]], [[Chakma language|Chakma]], [[Santali language|Santali]] and numerous other smaller languages spoken in eastern South Asia.<ref>"Already the fact that most Bengalis will refer to the script of their language exclusively as the 'Bengali script', though it is used for many other languages as well, e.g. Assamese, Bishnupriya, Chakma, Meitei, Santali, etc. gives a glimpse of the dominant role of the Bengali language in the eastern part of South Asia {{harvcol|Brandt|2014|pp=25–26}}</ref><ref>Bijan Kumar Roy, Subal Chandra Biswas and Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay, [http://ijkcdt.net/xml/17110/17110.pdf Designing Unicode‐compliant Indic‐script based Institutional Digital Repository with special reference to Bengali], page 55, International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology Vol.8, No.3, 53-67 (September 2018)</ref> Historically, it was used to write various [[Old Indo-Aryan|Old]] and [[Middle Indo-Aryan]] languages, and, like many other Brahmic scripts, is still used for writing [[Sanskrit]].<ref name="brandt-sohoni-2018-7"/> Other languages, such as [[Bodo language|Bodo]], [[Karbi language|Karbi]], [[Maithili language|Maithili]] and [[Mishing language|Mising]] were once written in this script.<ref>Prabhakara, M S {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20070710202520/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/05/19/stories/2005051904051100.htm Scripting a solution]}}, The Hindu, 19 May 2005.</ref> The two major alphabets in this script – [[Assamese alphabet|Assamese]] and [[Bengali alphabet|Bengali]] – are virtually identical, except for two characters — Assamese differs from Bengali in one letter for the /r/ sound, and an extra letter for the /w/ or /v/ sound.<ref name=MajR>Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, ''The History and Culture of the Indian People: British paramountcy and Indian renaissance'' (Part 2), page 219, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1951</ref><ref name=ComB>Bernard Comrie, ''The World's Major Languages'', page 419, Routledge, 2009, {{ISBN|9781134261567}}</ref><ref name=Mahap>B. P. Mahapatra, ''Constitutional languages'', page 39, Presses Université Laval, 1989, {{ISBN|9782763771861}}</ref>
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