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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear NBGP members, <o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find the updated agenda for the NBGP Bangla LGR meeting at IHC, Delhi 21-22 December 2018.
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<p class="MsoNormal">For remote participation, please see how to connect below. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please help extend the invitation to the Bangla experts who might not be on the NBGP mailing list.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>AGENDA for NBGP Bangla LGR Meeting, IHC, Delhi, 21- 22 December 2018, times are shown in local Indian Standard Time<o:p><br>
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21 December 2018<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">12:00 – 13:00 Take Stock<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">13:00 – 14:00 Lunch <o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">14:00 – 18:00 Full discussion on the following topics
<i>(Remote participants are invited to join at 14:00)</i> <o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">1. The correct name for the script in question (Bengali vs. Bangla).<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">2. Technical and other information wrt census statistics, relation with Brahmi-Devanagari script etc.<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">3. Issues regarding term/ alternative names for vowel markings on consonant ('-kar' vs. 'Matra'); 'hasanta’ vs. the term 'halanta'.<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">4. Addition and finalization of the seminal contribution of Bangla Academy, Dhaka in the LGR document (By Pabitra Sarkar and others).<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">5. The fundamentals of nukta or bindu with special reference to characters as
<span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">ড়</span>, <span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">
ঢ়</span>, <span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">য়</span><span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif">
</span>and even in the case of <span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">
র</span><span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif">. (</span>and also letters such as
<span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">ক়</span>, <span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">
খ়</span>, <span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">গ়</span>, <span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">
জ়</span>, and <span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">ফ়</span><span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Arial Unicode MS',sans-serif"> -
</span>because they are useful in denoting some Perso-Arabic words).<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">6. Place for Bangla numerals in the UNICODE and addition of old and traditional numericals.<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">7. Transliteration/ transcription issues.<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">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.<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">9. Observations on In-script and cross-script variants.<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in">10. Bengali Vowel sign Vocalic RR (<span lang="BN" style="font-family:'Kohinoor Bangla'">ৄ</span>,U+09C4).<br>
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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.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>22 December 2018<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">11:00 – TBD <o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Discuss the pending topics from day-1 and plan the next steps.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pitinan<o:p><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">………………..<o:p><br>
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