<div dir="ltr">I agree with this observation of Rajib Chakraborty about non-functionality of the symbol under 098C which should be eliminated.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Udaya Narayana Singh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Rajib Chakraborty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajibchakraborty2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">rajibchakraborty2005@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Dear All,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Let me share my observation
regarding the Bnagla Code-point repertoire (pardon me, if my observation sounds
naïve!)—</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""></span></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> 098C (</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Kalpurush" lang="BN">ঌ</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">)—This so-called vocalic letter was never ever in
use in Bangla. This was inherited from the Na</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̄</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">gari</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̄</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> (I prefer not to use the epithet "<i>Deva"</i>
before Na</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̄</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">gari</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̄</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> as historically there is no element of divinity in
the script) script. Even in Sanskrit its use was limited to a solitary verb
root √<i>kl</i></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̣</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">p- </span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">"to be adapted" and a few of its
conjugated forms, e.g. Vedic form <i>ca</i></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̄</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">kl</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̣</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">pé</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> in 3rd person Singular Perfect, Desiderative form <i>cikl</i></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̣</span></i><i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">psati</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">, etc. (Whitney, 1997: 24) In Bangla this was blindly copied from Na</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̄</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">gari</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">̄</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">. It does not even have any historical or archaic
value in Bangla writing system (for a detailed discussion see Sarkar, 2016</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ː 104-110</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">). Moreover there is high risk of confusing this
letter with the symbol for Bangla numeral 9 (fortunately numerals are
disallowed here</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ǃ</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">)—these two are awfully
similar. Inclusion of this letter has no valid argument whatsoever. This should
be disallowed as per IDNA protocol. <span> </span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Except this rest
is fine!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Best</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">Rajib Chakraborty<br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">References:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"">1. Sarkar,
Pabitra. 2016. “A Commonsense Linguistic Note on the Sanskrit Alphabet”. In
Bhattacharyya, Chandan & Sen, Subhrajit etds. 2016 <i>S</i></span><i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">́odhanidhiḥ</span></i><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, Benaras Mercantile
Co. & Gourbanga University, pp. 104-110. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">2. Whitney, William Dwight. 1997. <i>The Roots,
Verb-forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language</i>. 1<sup>st</sup>
edn in 1885. Delhiː Motilal Banarasidass Publishers Private Limited. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
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<p><font face="Cambria Math">We have created an initial set of
code-point repertoire for Bangla.<br>
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<p><font face="Cambria Math">Your feedback/comments are
solicited. <br>
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<font face="Cambria Math">We have planned to finalize the Bangla
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