KOKBOROK
LANGUAGE - ART & CULTURE
News:
Tripura protest: Students
block rail tracks, roads over Kokborok script issue
What's
in the news?
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In tribal areas of Tripura, train services
and vehicular movement were severely impacted due to an “indefinite"
rail-road blockade by student bodies over the Kokborok script issue.
Key
takeaways:
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Kokborok is an indigenous language spoken by nearly 24 percent people of Tripura.
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It does
not have a script.
Kokborok
Language:
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Kokborok is the language spoken by the
Borok people belonging to the State of Tripura.
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The term kok means "verbal", and
borok means "people" or "human".
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It is a Sino-Tibetan language and can be
traced back to at least the 1st century AD when the historical record of
Tripuri kings started to be written down in a book called the Rajratnakar.
Features:
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The dialect belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of languages, and
its root can be traced to the Sino-Tibetan speech family.
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Kokborok got the written form in the year
1897 as Doulot Ahammad, a Muslim scholar, wrote the first Kokborok Grammar
named “KOKBOROMA AND TRIPURA – VYAKARAN GRAMMAR.”
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It is one of the state languages of Tripura, notified on January 19, 1979.