{"id":15365,"date":"2023-09-30T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T06:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15365"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:49:24","slug":"toto-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/toto-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto language"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Toto language:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>Sino-Tibetan language\u00a0<\/strong>spoken by the tribal Toto people and is written in the Bengali script.<\/li>\n<li>A prominent community\u00a0<strong>member Dhaniram Toto developed a script<\/strong> as recently as in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>spoken by\u00a0<\/strong>barely 1,600 people living in parts of\u00a0<strong>West Bengal bordering Bhutan<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Key facts about Toto Shabda Sangraha<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The dictionary has\u00a0<strong>been compiled by Bhakta Toto<\/strong>, a bank employee-cum-poet, and published jointly by the trust and Bhasha Samsad<\/li>\n<li>The dictionary is a step in the direction of\u00a0<strong>preserving the language<\/strong>, alive so far only orally, by putting its vocabulary in print.<\/li>\n<li>Toto words, to be\u00a0<strong>translated into Bengali and English<\/strong>, will be composed in the Bengali script, considering that the Toto script is still in a nascent stage and members of the tribe are more familiar with the Bengali script.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is\u00a0 Language?<\/h3>\n<p>Language is a system of communication used by humans and some animals to convey thoughts, ideas, emotions, and information. It is a complex and dynamic system that involves the use of sounds, words, and symbols to express meaning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/kolkata\/a-dictionary-with-the-purpose-of-saving-a-bengal-language-from-dying\/article67356202.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>A dictionary to save a language from extinction<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toto language is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the tribal Toto people and is written in the Bengali script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}