Meanings
banglaphone1
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of Banglaphone
Banglaphone2
alternative banglaphone
- not comparableBengali-speaking.
the Banglaphone media
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The kids are still taught a little English, but most of their time is spent singing Sylheti nursery rhymes and interacting with Banglaphone teachers.
1999, India Today International, volume 24, Living Media India Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27It is striking that all the writers discussed in this essay on Banglaphone writing are impossible to confine within a purely British location.
2015 December 28, Claire Chambers, “Banglaphone Fiction: British Sylhetis in Writing by Londoni Authors”, in Crossings, →ISSN, page 24Karim'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.
2017 September 15, Ali Usman Qasmi, Megan Eaton Robb, Muslims against the Muslim League, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 347Both 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 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), Oxford University Press, →ISBNpreserve the thick histories ... of key intellectuals who all appear in our research lives within the Banglaphone world [and who] have similar biographical trajectories
2018, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, quoting Neilesh Bose, “Utopias Eroded and Recalled: Intellectual Legacies of East Pakistan”, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, volume 41, number 4, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 892–910
plural Banglaphones · alternative banglaphone
- One who speaks Bengali.
Origin
Translations
Bengali বাংলাভাষী, বাংলাভাষী
- বাংলাভাষী (baṅlabhaśi)Bengali-speaking
- বাংলাভাষী (baṅlabhaśi)one who speaks Bengali
Dutch Bengaalssprekende, Bengaalstalig
- BengaalssprekendeBengali-speaking
- BengaalstaligBengali-speaking
- Bengaalssprekendeone who speaks Bengali
Esperanto banglaparola, banglaparolanto
- banglaparolaBengali-speaking
- banglaparolantoone who speaks Bengali
- banglalingvanoone who speaks Bengali
Finnish bengalinkielinen, bengalinpuhuja
- bengalinkielinenBengali-speaking
- bengalinpuhujaone who speaks Bengali
French banglaphone, banglaphone
- banglaphoneBengali-speaking
- banglaphoneone who speaks Bengali
German bengalischsprachig, banglaphon
- bengalischsprachigBengali-speaking
- banglaphonBengali-speaking
- Bengalischsprecherone who speaks Bengali
- Bengalischsprecherinone who speaks Bengali
- Bengalischsprachigerone who speaks Bengali
- Bengalischsprachigeone who speaks Bengali
Hindi बांग्लाभाषी, बांग्लाभाषी
- बांग्लाभाषी (bāṅlābhāṣī)Bengali-speaking
- बांग्लाभाषी (bāṅlābhāṣī)one who speaks Bengali
Hungarian bengáli ajkú, bengáli nyelvű
- bengáli ajkúBengali-speaking
- bengáli nyelvűBengali-speaking
Italian banglafono, banglafono
- banglafonoBengali-speaking
- banglafonoone who speaks Bengali
- banglafonaone who speaks Bengali
Latin Banglaphona, Banglaphonus
- Banglaphonaone who speaks Bengali
- Banglaphonusone who speaks Bengali
Polish bengalskojęzyczny, banglajęzyczny
- bengalskojęzycznyBengali-speaking
- banglajęzycznyBengali-speaking
- banglafonone who speaks Bengali
Portuguese banglafono, banglafalante
- banglafonoBengali-speaking
- banglafalanteBengali-speaking
- banglafonoone who speaks Bengali
- banglafonaone who speaks Bengali
- banglafalanteone who speaks Bengali
Romanian banglafon, banglafon
- banglafonBengali-speaking
- banglafonone who speaks Bengali
Russian банглаговоря́щий, банглаязы́чный
- банглаговоря́щий (banglagovorjáščij)Bengali-speaking
- банглаязы́чный (banglajazýčnyj)Bengali-speaking
- банглаговоря́щий (banglagovorjáščij)one who speaks Bengali
- банглаязы́чный (banglajazýčnyj)one who speaks Bengali
Spanish banglaparlante, banglahablante
- banglaparlanteBengali-speaking
- banglahablanteBengali-speaking
- banglafonoBengali-speaking
- banglahablanteone who speaks Bengali
- banglaparlanteone who speaks Bengali
- banglafonoone who speaks Bengali
- banglafonaone who speaks Bengali
Swedish bengaliskspråkig, bengalisktalare
- bengaliskspråkigBengali-speaking
- bengalisktalareone who speaks Bengali
Ukrainian бангламо́вний
- бангламо́вний (banhlamóvnyj)Bengali-speaking
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