SEPPA, Jan 6: With the initiative of the Nyishi Elite Society (NES), the effort to promote Nyishi Agam (language) has perched down to one of the densely populated districts of the Nyishis. To promote teaching of the language, a training-cum-workshop began here today in presence of East Kameng Deputy Commissioner Pige Ligu and NES president Bengia Tullon.
Tullon, who is touted as one of the prominent literary persons among the Nyishis, said that though there are many similarities between the Nyishi language and other tribes of the State yet there was a need to evolve a language of “our own that can serve the community in a unified manner”. He said a dictionary on the language is under progress and will soon be available.
Deputy Commissioner Pige Ligu, who declared the session open, while citing the example from different parts of the world like Japan, Taiwan etc where some of the aboriginal language are on the verge of extinction, said that the effort of the NES is laudable. Like the Cantonese and the Mandarin in China, whose language has slight nuances in meaning, Nyishi too has some differences in meaning, which can be resolved by evolving a common script and language, he added. THE SENTINEL
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