Historial Back ground of Kokborok scriptPAST,

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15TH MARCH 2013 AT TRIPURA UNIVERSITY

Languages of India

In different parts of India, different languages are

spoken. Most of the languages of India belong to two families, Aryan and Dravidian. Along with these two main language families, there are other languages from the Sini - Mongoloid family spoken in east India.

Languages of India

Language of Kokborok

Kokborok is a Indo-Tibeto language group comes under the Sini-Tibetan language family of East Asia and South East Asia. Kokborok mostly speak Tripuri people along with Reang, Jamatia, and some sub clans of Halam community, like Koloy & Rupini etc. Near about two million Kokborok speaking people live in Assam, Nagaland & Mizoram states and approx. three million Kokborok speaking people also live our nearest country in Bangladesh.

Most in the non-Kokborok tribes of Tripura can completely speak or understand and large number of Bengali speaking people can dialogue in Kokborok, like a mother tongue, who live in next-door at Tripuri village of Tripura.

Language of Kokborok

Kokborok has existed in its various forms since at least the 1st century AD, when the historical record of Tripura Kings began to be written down. The script of Kokborok was called "Koloma". The Chronicle of the Tripuri Kings were written in a book called the Rajratnakar, this book was originally written down in Kokborok using the Koloma script by Durlobendra Chontai.

Language of Kokborok

Later, two Brahmins, Sukreswar and Vaneswar translated it into Sanskrit and then again translated the chronicle into Bengali in the 14th century. The chronicle of Twipra in Kokborok and Rajratnakar are no longer available. Kokborok was relegated to a common people's dialect during the rule of the Tripuri Kings in the Kingdom of Tripura, in contrast to Bengali language, from the period of the 14th century till the 20th century.

Language of Kokborok

Language of Kokborok

Kokborok was recognised as an official language of Tripura state in 19th January 1979. There currently is a debate over giving the language recognition as a National language of India.

Script

Writing is a method of representing language in visual or tactile form. Writing systems use sets of symbols to represent the sounds of speech, and may also have symbols for such things as punctuation and numerals.

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Harappan Civilization 3000 -1500 BC Debtamura

Unokuti

Pictorial script Anicient scripts using pictures and symbols are called pictorial script.

Debtamura

Script RajmalaRoyal Chronicle of 184 Tripura kings.

Last page of Rajmala

First page of Rajmala

Script CoinsAncient Coins of Tripura.

Script Rare books Bhagnya Hridaya by Sri Rabindra nath

Thakur

Script Tripureswari Temple Anciaent Bangla Nagari-derived script

Script In Bamboo sheetAslong Alphabet

Nirajoy Tripura

Mrinalkanti Debbarma

Script Black Magic Anciaent Kokborok script

Modern Kokborok Script Tripuri Script By Alindralal Tripura

Modern Kokborok Script Tripuri Script (Bangladesh) By Montrajoy Tripura

Script Kokborok Script By Ananta Debbarma

Script Kokborok Script By Hriday charan Jamatia

Script Kokborok (Bangladesh) By Malek Fakir

Script Kokborok (RajChantai) By Sambhuram Debbarma

Script Kokborok (Dhalai) By Niranjan Debbarma

Script Tripura Script (Bangladesh) Mustapha Majid ( Tripura Jati Parichoy)

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Khulumka