'Language Box' to save tribal tongues
The New Indian Express|August 12, 2022
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'Language Box' to save tribal tongues

IN an effort to preserve endangered tribal languages that do not have a written form, a 'language box' has been installed at a tribal residential school at Semmanarai village near Kotagiri in the Nilgiris district. Tribal students can pick up words from their language, write it on a paper in English or Tamil, and drop it in the box. Thirty-five Irula and Kurumba tribal students are studying in the school.

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