(Scene of
Bodoland Movement in Bodoland University,Kokrajhar)
Bodoland
G.K: Bodo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken by Bodo people of North-Eastern
India and Nepal.It is rich language ,it
has to its credit large number of books from various genre starting from
Poetry,Drama,short story ,novel,biography,travelogue,children’s literature and
literary criticism. As a result of Bodoland Movement for the language status of
the Bodo language,it was introduced as the medium of instruction(1963) in the
primary schools in Bodo dominated areas. Now,Bodo language is the medium of
instruction up to secondary level.It is even introduced as a PG course at the
University level.
(Roman Script Books)
Bodo language
is officially written in the Devanagri script,although it has a history of
using Roman Script .Some reasearchers even claimed that,originally it has its
own script known as Deodhai.Bodo Language shares some common features with
Dimasa language of Assam & Garo language of Meghalaya.
Bodo
language has been included in the Eighth
Schedule as a 22nd official
language in 2003.
Words
by The Bodo Tribe 18 Team
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