Historial Back ground of
Kokborok script
PAST, TODAY &
TOMMOROW
15TH MARCH 2013
AT
TRIPURA UNIVERSITY
Languages of India
In different parts of India, different languages are spoken. Most
of the languages of India belong to two families, Aryan and
Dravidian. Along with these two main language families, there are
other languages from the Sini - Mongoloid family spoken in east
India.
Languages of India
Language of Kokborok
Kokborok is a Indo-Tibeto language group
comes under the Sini-Tibetan language family
of East Asia and South East Asia. Kokborok
mostly speak Tripuri people along with Reang,
Jamatia, and some sub clans of Halam
community, like Koloy & Rupini etc. Near about
two million Kokborok speaking people live in
Assam, Nagaland & Mizoram states and approx.
three million Kokborok speaking people also
live our nearest country in Bangladesh.
Most in the non-Kokborok tribes of Tripura
can completely speak or understand and large
number of Bengali speaking people can
dialogue in Kokborok, like a mother tongue,
who live in next-door at Tripuri village of
Tripura.
Language of Kokborok
 Kokborok has existed in its various forms since
at least the 1st century AD, when the historical
record of Tripura Kings began to be written
down. The script of Kokborok was called
"Koloma". The Chronicle of the Tripuri Kings
were written in a book called the Rajratnakar,
this book was originally written down in
Kokborok using the Koloma script by
Durlobendra Chontai.
Language of Kokborok
 Later, two Brahmins, Sukreswar and Vaneswar
translated it into Sanskrit and then again
translated the chronicle into Bengali in the 14th
century. The chronicle of Twipra in Kokborok
and Rajratnakar are no longer available.
Kokborok was relegated to a common people's
dialect during the rule of the Tripuri Kings in
the Kingdom of Tripura, in contrast to Bengali
language, from the period of the 14th century
till the 20th century.
Language of Kokborok
Language of Kokborok
 Kokborok was recognised as an official language
of Tripura state in 19th January 1979. There
currently is a debate over giving the language
recognition as a National language of India.
Script
 Writing is a method of representing language in
visual or tactile form. Writing systems use sets
of symbols to represent the sounds of speech,
and may also have symbols for such things as
punctuation and numerals.
Script
Script
Script
Script
 Pictorial script
Script
 Anicient scripts using pictures and symbols are called pictorial script.
Unokuti
Debtamura
Debtamura
Harappan Civilization 3000 -1500 BC
 Rajmala
Script
 Royal Chronicle of 184 Tripura kings.
Last page of Rajmala
First page of Rajmala
 Coins
Script
 Ancient Coins of Tripura.
Script
 Rare books
 Bhagnya Hridaya by Sri Rabindra nath Thakur
Script
 Tripureswari Temple
 Anciaent Bangla Nagari-derived script
Script
 In Bamboo sheet
 Aslong Alphabet
Nirajoy Tripura
Mrinalkanti Debbarma
Script
 Black Magic
 Anciaent Kokborok script
Modern Kokborok Script
 Tripuri Script
 By Alindralal Tripura
Modern Kokborok Script
 Tripuri Script (Bangladesh)
 By Montrajoy Tripura
Script
 Kokborok Script
 By Ananta Debbarma
Script
 Kokborok Script
 By Hriday charan Jamatia
Script
 Kokborok (Bangladesh)
 By Malek Fakir
Script
 Kokborok (RajChantai)
 By Sambhuram Debbarma
Script
 Kokborok (Dhalai)
 By Niranjan Debbarma
Script
 Tripura Script (Bangladesh)
 Mustapha Majid ( Tripura Jati Parichoy)
Thanks
Khulumka