Tripura Chief Minister vows to rename locations in tribal dialects on International Mother Language Day

The Tripura authorities on Sunday felicitated Rabi Mohan Karbong, a consultant of an endangered ethno-linguistic tribal group within the state, on International Mother Language Day. It additionally introduced steps to rename completely different locations in indigenous tribal dialects as an indication of respect and recognition to the communities.
Speaking at an occasion at Rabindra Shatabarshiki Bhawan in state capital Agartala to mark International Mother Language Day, Chief Minister Biplab Deb stated his authorities is dedicated to giving equal significance and recognition to all indigenous communities. He stated whereas he can converse in numerous languages akin to English, Hindi and Punjabi, there’s just one, his mom tongue Bengali, via which he can actually categorical his feelings.

“We speak different languages but can’t connect with all of them. Only our mother tongue can bind us to our roots. We should protect our mother tongue as it represents emotion, accent, clarity, non-verbal body language and most of all, who we are,” the CM stated, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, via the Centre’s New Education Policy, has careworn on studying in a single’s mom tongue until the fifth normal.
Delving into historical past, Deb stated the nation was below the occupation of international invaders for hundreds of years and their languages subsumed in conventional Indian languages over time. “He said the traditional dialects that were steeped in native soil were often ignored as foreign languages took precedence,” the CM stated, including that it was an try and impose a international language on natives that led to the ‘Bhasha Andolan’ (motion to determine the primacy of Bengali language) in present-day Bangladesh, in 1952. That wrestle paved the best way for the International Mother Language Day, he additional stated.

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“We believe in working on the ground as opposed to talking big. In the coming days, we shall rename different places of Tripura in tribal languages to respect and acknowledge our linguistic identities,” Deb stated. His authorities has already renamed Baramura, considered one of Tripura’s hill ranges, as Hatai Kotor, which accurately interprets to a giant mountain, in Kokborok dialect whereas celebrating ‘Kokborok Day’ final 12 months.
The state is residence to 19 tribal communities, together with the traditional Tripuri clans and people of the Halam group, of which solely a handful are left who converse their native tongues. According to an estimate by the UNESCO World Atlas of Languages, over 600 oral languages die or go out of date yearly.

Korbong, which was accorded due recognition on Sunday as an endangered linguistic group of Tripura, is one amongst a number of different teams akin to Chaimar and Bongcher the place solely a handful are round who converse of their native dialects.
As per a authorities estimate, 8,14,375 folks from Tripura, Reang, Jamatia, Noatia, Kalai, Rupini, Murasing and Uchoi communities converse the Kokborok language in Tripura, and it’s the lingua franca for almost all of the state’s indigenous teams or folks.