Although they know how to read and write Bangla and English, many children of the Chakma community do not know the alphabets of their own language. As a result, they are showing less interest in their ...

GUWAHATI The Chakma National Council of India (CNCI) has asked the National Commission for Religious and Linguistic Minorities to stop referring to the Chakma language as Bengali. The Mizoram State ...

Tripura is set to integrate the Chakma script into Google Translate, announced Minister Ratan Lal Nath. Seven sub-committees will digitize around 50,000 Chakma words, alongside plans for a National ...

In a country where people laid down their lives about seventy years ago to uphold the dignity of their mother tongue, Bangla, the struggle is still on to preserve mother tongues of smaller ethnic ...

“Mor Thengari” alternatively called My Bicycle, the first feature film entirely made in Chakma language, was premièred at the 13th Dhaka Short and Independent Film Festival in the first week of ...

Chakma council to introduce Mizo language as subject in schools As per the decision, Mizo subject will be taught in all government-run or managed, local body, and Samagra Shiksha schools from the ...

Following a government decision in 2017, the National Curriculum and Textbook Board took the long overdue decision to publish primary school textbooks in indigenous languages — mainly Chakma, Marma ...

Children of different ethnic minorities in the hill communities received the rights to learn the mother tongue eight years ago, but made no headway due to the lack of proper government initiatives and ...