banglaphone
/ˌbæŋ.ɡləˈfoʊn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Bengali-speaking.
adj
Alternative form of Banglaphone
noun
Alternative form of Banglaphone
Example Sentences
- "the Banglaphone media"
- "The kids are still taught a little English, but most of their time is spent singing Sylheti nursery rhymes and interacting with Banglaphone teachers."
- "It is striking that all the writers discussed in this essay on Banglaphone writing are impossible to confine within a purely British location."
- "Karim'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."
- "Both 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."
- "preserve the thick histories ... of key intellectuals who all appear in our research lives within the Banglaphone world [and who] have similar biographical trajectories"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌbæŋ.ɡləˈfoʊn/
- British English: /ˌbæŋ.ɡləˈfəʊn/