Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Translating Orkut Into Bangla?

For those of you who do not know what Bangla is, here is a Wikipedia definition:

Bangla [...] or Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia, evolved from Sanskrit and Prakrit. The traditional English rendering is "Bengali", but recently the rendering "Bangla" has been gaining currency in English.

With nearly 200 million native speakers, Bangla is one of the most widely spoken languages of the world (it is ranked between four [1] and seven [2] based on the number of speakers). Bangla is the second most commonly spoken language in India (after Hindi-Urdu). Along with Assamese, it is geographically the most eastern of the Indo-European languages.


The author of NiponWave.com is translating Orkut into Bangla for the Google team as part of the Google your language project which helps Google share its services by translating its features into other tongues.

He (or is it a she?) seems pretty excited about doing this in their spare time, and it will be great to add another language to the list.

1 opinions:

1 said...

when?

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