Banglaphone

See also: banglaphone

English

Alternative forms

• banglaphone

Etymology

From Bangla +‎ -phone.

Adjective

Banglaphone (not comparable)

1. Bengali-speaking.

   the Banglaphone media

   • 1999, India Today International‎^[1], volume 24, Living Media India Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:

     The kids are still taught a little English, but most of their time is spent singing Sylheti nursery rhymes and interacting with Banglaphone teachers.

   • 2015 December, Claire Chambers, “Banglaphone Fiction: British Sylhetis in Writing by Londoni Authors”, in Crossings‎^[2], →ISSN, page 24:

     It is striking that all the writers discussed in this essay on Banglaphone writing are impossible to confine within a purely British location.

   • 2017 September 15, Ali Usman Qasmi, Megan Eaton Robb, Muslims against the Muslim League‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 347:

     Karim's version of Pakistan emerged just before the various ideas that undergirded the Bengali Muslim variant of Pakistan would arise, in 1942 to 1944, and his critique proceeded in parallel with the rest of the Banglaphone set of debates.

   • 2018 June 9, Abanindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance: Abanindranath Tagore’s The Make-Believe Prince (Kheerer Putul); Gaganendranath Tagore’s Toddy-Cat the Bold (Bhondaṛ Bahadur)‎^[4], Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     Both works include culturally specific references, hence my inclusion of some obvious material which 'every (Bengali) schoolboy (sic) knows', all directed to non-Banglaphone Indian and international readers.

   • 2018, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, quoting Neilesh Bose, “Utopias Eroded and Recalled: Intellectual Legacies of East Pakistan”, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies‎^[5], volume 41, number 4, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 892–910:

     preserve the thick histories ... of key intellectuals who all appear in our research lives within the Banglaphone world [and who] have similar biographical trajectories

   • 2018, Kris Manjapra, “Third World Humanities from South Asian Perspectives: An Oral History Approach”, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies‎^[6], volume 41, number 4, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 828–845:

     We take major sites of South Asian cultural and intellectual humanities production in the Banglaphone sphere as our focus, especially Kolkata (earlier Calcutta) and Dhaka (earlier Dacca)

Translations

Bengali-speaking

• Bengali: বাংলাভাষী (baṅlabhaśi)
• Dutch: Bengaalssprekende, Bengaalstalig
• Esperanto: banglaparola
• Finnish: bengalinkielinen
• French: banglaphone
• Galician: banglafalante
• German: bengalischsprachig, banglaphon
• Hungarian: bengáli ajkú, bengáli nyelvű
• Italian: banglafono
• Polish: bengalskojęzyczny (pl), banglajęzyczny
• Portuguese: banglafono, banglafalante
• Romanian: banglafon
• Russian: банглаговоря́щий (banglagovorjáščij), банглаязы́чный (banglajazýčnyj)
• Spanish: banglaparlante, banglahablante, banglafono
• Swedish: bengaliskspråkig
• Ukrainian: бангламо́вний (banhlamóvnyj)

Noun

Banglaphone (plural Banglaphones)

1. One who speaks Bengali.

Related terms

• Banglaphonic

Translations

one who speaks Bengali

• Bengali: বাংলাভাষী (baṅlabhaśi)
• Dutch: Bengaalssprekende m or f
• Esperanto: banglaparolanto, banglalingvano
• Finnish: bengalinpuhuja
• French: banglaphone m or f
• Galician: banglafalante m or f
• German: Bengalischsprachiger m, Bengalischsprachige f
• Italian: banglafono m, banglafona f
• Latin: Banglaphona f, Banglaphonus m
• Polish: banglafon m
• Portuguese: banglafono m, banglafona f, banglafalante m or f
• Romanian: banglafon m
• Russian: банглаговоря́щий m (banglagovorjáščij), банглаязы́чный m (banglajazýčnyj)
• Spanish: banglahablante m or f, banglaparlante m or f, banglafono m, banglafona f
• Swedish: bengalisktalare
• Volapük: Banglapükan