[Re: Conch and bangle]

[Jogesh Panda]

"B.Bhattacharya" <b.bhattacharya at FREELER.NL> wrote:
Dear List member,

>conch ib Bengali is sankha (pronounced as shonkho) not zakha as Mr. Panda
>has written

I forgot to mention the tatsama word zaGkha [pronounced zoGkho]also used in
Bengali. But the rest of the information is correct. I said zA~kh for conch
and zA~khA for the bracelet, but not 'zakha' as you write in your post.[Are
you familiar with the transliteration I am using ?

Jogesh Panda


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