Bengali and Islam both are our part of life. Inclusion of Arabic and persian words made our language rich. Many writers specially Kazi Nazrul are credited for this work. whats wrong in it?
Are you serious? Arabic script for Bengali language? is it even possible? we should make arabic a compulsory subject like Bengali and English. That will do. It will give Job opportunity to our huge madrassa educated population as school teachers and pvt teachers and make our workforce more competent in arab world. In 21st century ,. Middle east is the new west.
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Changing script or writing system is very common throughout history of the world, what remains constant is the sound of a living spoken language used by a large number of people as mother tongue. Hindi was created out of Urdu, changing the script to Devnagari and replacing many Persian, Arab and Turkic words with Sanskrit words, and the Sanskritization process still continues today. Korean Hangul was developed centuries back by King Sejong, and was in some usage, but it replaced Chinese script only in 20th century during a nationalistic resistance to Japanese colonial rule.
What I am proposing is creating a Musalman (Muslim Bangla) in a similar process, from the existing Sanskritized Bangla. This Sanskritized Bangla was Sanskritized in two phases, the first one during Sena Dynasty I believe. Then Middle Bangla under Muslim rule was heavily Islamized with a lot of loan words from Turkic, Arabic and Persian languages. Even a Nastaliq (perso-Arabic script same as Urdu) was used for this old "Middle Bangla" among other scripts in those times. This heavily Islamized language is found in Puthi language.
After Muslim rule ended in Bengal, the second sanskritization was sponsored by the British with help of Bengali Brahmin Pundits like Vidyasagar associated with Fort Williams college in Kolkata and other writers/poets during Bengal Renaissance period. They developed what is called Standard Bangla, which we still use today. Tagore and Bankim are famous for importing more Tatsama words.
I propose several things:
- introducing modern Arabic script as well as English script for Bengali as available options (no one will force anyone to learn these, they will be optional, only for interested people)
- reversing the sanskritization that robbed our Islamic heritage, by replacing tatsama sanskrit words with Arabic and English loan words
- why Arabic and English scripts and loan words to transform Bengali, because these two worlds, Arab world (total population 500 million) and English as Global language used in Global economy, holds the most promise for economic advancement. There is no reason for us to limit ourselves to the same script with West Bengal and Assam, as our current and future economic relations with these two economies are minuscule
- those who want to hold on to existing Bangla script, will be free to do so, in fact initially most will not change
- English script and loan words will facilitate easy internet and texting use (Ingrezi okkhore Bangla Bhasa lekha khub kathin ki?)
- Arabic script and loan words usage will make it much easier for Bangaldeshi's to learn Arabic
. Speak Arabic and there will be no such issues. Whaddya think 7abibi?
