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KHINJILI, 27 May:<\/strong> The RIWATCH Centre for Mother Languages (RCML) – a dedicated centre aimed at preserving and promoting linguistic diversity – was inaugurated here in Lower Dibang Valley district by Pasighat (East Siang)-based Arunachal State University Vice Chancellor Prof Tomo Riba and Indigenous Affairs Director Sokhep Kri, in the presence of Idu-Mishmi Cultural & Literary Society (IMCLS) president Ista Pulu, RIWATCH academic adviser Satyanarayan Mundayoor, and others on Saturday.<\/p>\n The centre is supported by the North Eastern Council and the state’s indigenous affairs department.<\/p>\n Prof Riba in his inaugural address said that children should be taught to “listen more to learn and understand their mother languages,” and added that “people’s willingness to speak is a major factor to save and transmit one’s dialect\/language to new generations.”<\/p>\n Kri in his address said that “the bigger responsibility lies with communities to take forward the steps to promote and preserve their mother tongues.”<\/p>\n Speaking on the wide array of initiatives of the indigenous affairs department, he said that “a centre like RCML is just a beginning towards mother tongue documentation and preservation in Arunachal Pradesh.”<\/p>\n Mundayoor in his address stressed on “development of speaking skills among children to better learn their mother languages.” He said also that there is a need to initiate “bilingualism as a mass movement<\/p>\n \u00a0in schools, colleges, universities, government offices, etc, to make people learn multiple languages simultaneously.”<\/p>\n Doimukh-based Rajiv Gandhi University’s Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL) coordinator Prof S Simon John said that “mother tongue is ascribed and gives identity to native speakers, and centres like RCML can be a harbinger for promoting and preserving one’s identity through research and documentation.”<\/p>\n CFEL assistant coordinator Dr Lisa Lomdak stressed on “greater community engagement for the development of pedagogy materials for children in native dialects\/languages,” and added that the RCML “can be an avenue for collaborative projects for developing children’s literature.”<\/p>\n IMCLS president Pulu and RIWATCH Executive Director Vijay Swami also spoke.<\/p>\n Later, an MoU for collaborative projects and publications was signed between the IMCLS and the RMCL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KHINJILI, 27 May: The RIWATCH Centre for Mother Languages (RCML) – a dedicated centre aimed at preserving and promoting linguistic diversity – was inaugurated here in Lower Dibang Valley district by Pasighat (East Siang)-based Arunachal State University Vice Chancellor Prof Tomo Riba and Indigenous Affairs Director Sokhep Kri, in the presence of Idu-Mishmi Cultural & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}