GUWAHATI: In an effort to save the tribal language of Wancho, a government teacher from Arunachal Pradesh, Banwang Losu, has developed an independent script for the same.
It is to be mentioned that Wancho, which is mainly spoken in Arunachal Pradesh and other places such as Nagaland, Assam, Myanmar and Bhutan, does not have a formal written script and is only an oral language. Thus, it took Losu 12 years to develop the script.
Based on reports, in 2013, a book was published which had the basic application of letters into words and sentences. The same is being used as a textbook in approximately 20 government-run schools.
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The language has also been enlisted in the US-based Unicode Consortium for online usage.
Now, Losu wants to document every aspect of the language as it is among one of the endangered languages of the world.
It should be mentioned that out of the 197 Indian languages on the verge of extinction, 89 are from northeast India, and 34 languages out of these are from Arunachal Pradesh.
