Talk:অনেক

Bengali Transliteration

For transliteration of অনেক, I followed National Library at Kolkata romanization which is a standard for all Indic languages. I understand very well that Bengali অ does not sound exactly same as Hindi अ. But they are both same alphabet. Also as you know transliteration is not same as pronunciation. As mentioned in the article transliteration, "From an information-theoretical point of view, transliteration is a mapping from one system of writing into another, word by word, or ideally letter by letter. Transliteration attempts to use a one-to-one correspondence and be exact, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated words."

So both and should be transliterated as anek not ônek (অনেক) for Bengali and anek (अनेक) for Hindi, because even though they sound little different, they have the same spelling. Prometheus.pyrphoros 18:00, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

1. "But they are both same alphabet" - They are very clearly... NOT the same "alphabet".
2. The "National Library at Kolkata" doesn't tell us how to do things. We're not a comparative dictionary, so "for all Indic languages" doesn't make an exceptional amount of difference.
3. RVd — [ R·I·C ] opiaterein — 18:18, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

1. It's not just a library in Kolkata. It's the largest one in India, and national repository.
2. Misspelling the Kolkata to Kalkuta (also the meaning in Hindi becomes ofensive) clearly shows disrespect.
3. A change with proper justfication, should be open to discussion, rather threatening with Ban!
4. cf. Indic alphabet, it shows that both alphabets are same
5. Moreover.. the point in discussion is transliteration and not pronunciation.. so what is the point in differentiating?
6. If you are open to dicsussion.. why not take it to a proper page and lets get a concensus.
7. Wikitionary Bengali is still pretty much growing and all the standards set already need not to be accurate.

Prometheus.pyrphoros 11:11, 29 August 2010 (UTC)