[Neobrahmigp] NBGP Bangla LGR Meeting

Pitinan Kooarmornpatana pitinan.koo at icann.org
Thu Dec 20 11:58:48 UTC 2018


Dear NBGP members,



Please find the updated agenda for the NBGP Bangla LGR meeting at IHC, Delhi 21-22 December 2018.

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Please help extend the invitation to the Bangla experts who might not be on the NBGP mailing list.



AGENDA for NBGP Bangla LGR Meeting, IHC, Delhi, 21- 22 December 2018, times are shown in local Indian Standard Time


21 December 2018

      12:00 - 13:00 Take Stock

      13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

      14:00 - 18:00  Full discussion on the following topics (Remote participants are invited to join at 14:00)

            1. The correct name for the script in question (Bengali vs. Bangla).

            2. Technical and other information wrt census statistics, relation with Brahmi-Devanagari script etc.

            3. Issues regarding term/ alternative names for vowel markings on consonant ('-kar' vs. 'Matra'); 'hasanta' vs. the term 'halanta'.

            4. Addition and finalization of the seminal contribution of Bangla Academy, Dhaka in the LGR document (By Pabitra Sarkar and others).

            5. The fundamentals of nukta or bindu with special reference to characters as ?, ??, ? and even in the case of ?. (and also letters such as ??, ??, ??, ??, and ?? - because they are useful in denoting some Perso-Arabic words).

            6. Place for Bangla numerals in the UNICODE and addition of old and traditional numericals.

            7. Transliteration/ transcription issues.

            8. Special characters such as Avagraha and addition of extra characters from other script (language) such as Manipuri, Maithili and few conjunct letters in Pali etc.

            9. Observations on In-script and cross-script variants.

            10. Bengali Vowel sign Vocalic RR (?,U+09C4).

            Note: Some points have already been taken care in the document but the group may revisit them and make a firm confirmation face to face.



22 December 2018

            11:00 - TBD

                        Discuss the pending topics from day-1 and plan the next steps.



Regards,

Pitinan

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