From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 08 2010 - 23:16:20 CDT
Actually, Bengali is called "Bangla" in Bengali but "Bengali" has been and
still is the usual English name, both in common usage and in sources
such as the Ethnolog. There is no disrespect in the English
name for a language or country not being the same as that used in that
language or country, as one can see from the fact that the English name
is almost always different from the self-designation. This is true of every
other language with which I am familiar, which of course is to be expected
since different languages have different sound systems. If you know
Bengali, you will know that "English" is not called "English" in Bengali.
Bill
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