Youths urged to help globalise Bangla
The youths should come forward to internationalise Bangla language using updated information technology, speakers said at a programme yesterday.
Internationalisation of the language will require huge money but it can be possible if the youths contribute through using Internet and inventing software for translation of Bangla, they said.
The observations came at the 22nd Nazma Jesmin Chowdhury Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Modern Language (IML), Dhaka University.
DU Professor Abul Mansur Muhammad Musa, popularly known as Mansur Musa, delivered the lecture titled "Internationalisation of Bangla Language: Problems and Prospects".
An eminent academician, Dr Nazma Jesmin Chowdhury was a teacher of the IML and wife of noted educationalist Prof Sirajul Islam Chowdhury. She passed away on September 12, 1989.
In his speech, Prof Musa said economic crisis was a major hurdle for Bangla in obtaining recognition as one of the official languages of the UN.
Bangladesh will have to spend around Tk 440 crore annually if Bangla becomes a UN official language, he said.
The memorial programme was presided over by DU Vice Chancellor Prof AAM S Arefin Siddique, while IML Director Prof Sultan Ahmed, among others, spoke.
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