Bangla (Eng. Bengali) is a language common in Bangladesh and part of India (West Bengal) with a rich history of literature and cultural heritage.   How would it be; if on  site is opened for discussion about question and answer about Bengali language? The functions like tagging etc. and main portion of the question and answers will be basically written in English (so that everyone can understand and participate) but users will be allowed to quote in Bengali; with an English transcript of pronunciation and an English translation.  Initially the site would include all aspects of Bengali language; such as starting from Literature, riddles, metaphor-cracking through grammar, spelling, etymology, pronunciation, translation etc. to typing softwares, encoding types, problems in encoding, fonts, optical character recognition, etc.   Later on, if the site can survive and cross the beta stage; then further branching can be decided.   Update: The proposal has been submitted at
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