Tripura board allows Kokborok in Roman script in examinations

Subject: Geography

Section: Human geography

Context:

Widespread protests by students, indigenous communities, tribal forums, and political parties against the Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE).
TBSE agrees to allow Kokborok language exam papers to be written in both Roman and Bangla scripts.
Initially, only the Bangla script was allowed for Kokborok exams.

About Kokborok Language:

It is the language spoken by the Borok people belonging to the State of Tripura.
The term kok denotes “verbal”, and borok denotes “people” or “human”.
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.
The dialect belongs to the Tibeto-Burman group of languages, and its root can be traced to the Sino-Tibetan speech family.
Kokborok got the written form in the year 1897 as Doulot Ahammad, a Muslim scholar, wrote the first Kokborok Grammar viz. “KOKBOROMA ANG TRIPURA – VYAKARAN GRAMMAR.”
It is one of the state languages of Tripura, notified on January 19, 1979.

Tripura:

It is a state in northeast India.
It is the third smallest state of India.
It is bordered by Assam and Mizoram to the east and by Bangladesh to the north, south and west.

Source: TH