Want to make Bengali the official language of the UN – Mosaic – News –
December 23, 2009 – 10:51 pm
Members of the Indian state of West Bengal passed a resolution in support of predlozhdeniya Bangladesh make Bengali one of the official languages of the UN.
Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Hasina Vazed made a similar proposal to the UN General Assembly in September, reports the BBC, Cu.
There are currently six working languages of the UN: English, Russian, French, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.
Recall also that Bangla, or Bengali (beng.Bāṇlā) – the language of Bengali, a language of Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European language family, and the total number of its speakers, according to 2009 – about 250 million people.
Bengalis themselves – one of the many people in the world. They constitute the main population of Bangladesh (the capital – Dhaka) and West Bengal in India (the main city – Calcutta). Homeland Bengalis – a mega-deltas of South Asia – the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. The number of Bengalis in Bangladesh – 152 million people in India – about 100 million live Bengalis also in Bhutan, Nepal, Singapore, UK and other countries.
About half of all Bengalis – Muslims (mainly those who live in Bangladesh, but there are in India). Among the other half of the Bengalis are Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Christians.
