Kokborok Language

Sept. 2, 2023

Recently, over 260 people were detained in Tripura during a 12-hour statewide strike called by the Twipra Students’ Federation (TSF) to press for the introduction of Roman script for Kokborok.

About Kokborok Language:

Kokborok is the language spoken by the Borok people belonging to the State of Tripura.
The term kok means "verbal", and borok means "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 named “ KOKBOROMA ANG TRIPURA – VYAKARAN GRAMMAR.”
It is one of the state languages of Tripura, notified on January 19, 1979.