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Word for the Travel Wise (01/12/07)
I just spent a few minutes hanging around YouTube looking at various dance videos from around the world. My searching stopped at the video featured here of a traditional Bengali wedding dance performed at a henna ceremony. Apparently the performance is not typical for henna ceremonies, but the author of the video still gives props to the dancer and I agree that it is rather lovely. Today's word is a Bangla (Bengali) word used in Bangladesh:
naach - dance
Web resources for Bangla are few, but you can pick up quite a few words reading (not skimming) through the Wiki and from this Bangalinet site which has a small tutorial on how to write in the script. Beyond those two I'm sure there are others, but as I mentioned above it was like pulling teeth to get this word. With that being said class is dismissed.
Past Bangla words: bhromon, shobbho, nir dohsh, ohnubad
Filed under: Learning, Asia, Bangladesh, Foreign Language
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike Jan 19th 2007 4:55PM
It would be nice to see the word written out in Bengali.