Kokborok Language

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About Kokborok Language:

Kokborok is a language of the Borok people, geographically known as Tripuris.
It is one of the State’s official languages of Tripura, notified on January 19, 1979.
It is a Sino-Tibetan language and can be traced back to at least the 1st century AD when the historical record of Tripuri kings started to be written down in a book called the Raj Ratnakar.
So far, the term Kokborok is known to first occur as ‘Kok-boro’ in 1897/98 in an early primer on the language, Daulat Ahmed ‘Kokboroma.
In 1900, Thakur Radhamohan Debbarma spelt ‘Kokborok’ in a published grammar of the language.
At the time, various British Political Agents, District Officers, Sub- Division Officers were known as linguists – they called this language Tipperh, Tipura, or Tipra Language.
The word Kokborok is derived from the word ‘Kok’, meaning ‘verbal’, and ‘Borok’, meaning ‘people’ or ‘human’.
According to the 2011 Census report, the number of Kokborok-speaking people is 8,80,537, which is 23.97% of the total population of Tripura.

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Source: IT