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[edit] Bengali language

Informative well-organised article. Follows selected article criteria. Please help make it a selected article in Wikiproject West Bengal. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 06:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

  • Support - Generally informative and well-written article. It needs a little touching up:
1. While the Intro says that it is ranked between four and seven, in the subsection Official status under section Geographical distribution, it is mentioned as the 4th most spoken language. It is to be made consistent.
fixed--ppm 20:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
2. The Intro mentions it as the second most commonly spoken language after Hindi-Urdu, but the List of Indian languages by total speakers, listed in the See also section, puts it at no.4 after Hindi, Telugu and Tamil. I have not been able to get the language breakup for 2001 census. Moreover this listing will go on varying. Therefore it is safer to use some wording like this – “It is one of the most widely spoken languages in India after Hindi-Urdu.”
see comment below. Bengali really seems to be 2nd--ppm 20:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
3. In the subsection Official status under section Geographical distribution, it is mentioned that it is one of the 22 regional languages recognized by the Union of India. This is supported by List of national languages of India under See also, but there should be a reference to the source where it is mentioned. It also would be better if it is made one of the 24 official languages.
done--ppm 20:53, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
4. In the section under Vocabulary, there is a reference to “centuries of contact with Europeans, Mughals, Arabs, Persians, and East Asians”. The word ‘Mughals’ appears to be inappropriate. The article Mughal Empire to which it is linked mentions “Mughal is the Persian word for Mongol.” I feel it would be better to replace the word Mughals with Mongols, retaining the link to the Mughal Empire.
But Mughals, whatever the word means, are far from being Mongols. This all is an antiquated reference to Gheghis Khan. Maybe middle eastern?--ppm 20:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
5. The advance of Bengali literature is mentioned but its weakness in technical, medical and legal terminology and usage is not mentioned. This point may be given a thought. I also checked the article Tamil language, which is a featured article, and found no mention of the weaknesses.
Its really one sentence in the intro (advancement). Surely the weakness isn't really intro material, and where else can it be placed in the article is not clear.--ppm 20:43, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
That was just a suggestion. It is not essential, as a featured article also bypasses it.-- P.K.Niyogi 23:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

-- P.K.Niyogi 01:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment the wikipedia entry on Indian languages is super suspect. The reference provided actually shows Bengali being 2nd most spoken. I have noticed this sort of problem in quite a few south asian articles,--ppm 03:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Support as per above--ppm 01:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)