The Bengali New Year couldn’t have started on a sweeter note. If a message circulating on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook is to be believed, Bengali has been voted the sweetest language in the world.
Conducted by UNESCO, the vote ranks Spanish and Dutch as the second and third sweetest tongues respectively. Even though Twitter and Facebook users have started celebrating, there was yet no official confirmation from UNESCO which conducted the online voting a couple of months back.
Messages and postings like “Joy Bangla”, “Proud to be a Bengali” and “Banglar Joy” have flooded social networking sites. Celebratory messages are being exchanged, though some felt it could be premature. Rahul Ray, who came across the news on Twitter four days ago, was ecstatic. “If so many people are talking about it, this has to be true. There can’t be any doubt that Bengali is a sweet language. Now, it has been accepted that it is indeed the sweetest,” said Ray.
According to twitter messages, the formal announcement could come on Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary in May. “There is no doubt that Bengali is a sweet language,” said author Dibyendu Palit.
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