Tripura board allows Kokborok in Roman script in examinations
- February 8, 2024
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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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