{"id":252775,"date":"2024-11-25T01:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=252775"},"modified":"2024-11-25T01:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:55:01","slug":"written-script-for-sherdukpen-language-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/written-script-for-sherdukpen-language-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Written script for Sherdukpen language underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Prem Chetry ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHERGAON, 24 Nov:<\/strong> In an effort to transform the Mey (Sherdukpen) language into a written script, the development of its orthography is underway in Shergaon, a project under the All Sherdukpen Blu (ASB) in West Kameng district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former minister and president of ASB, D.K Thongdok, said, &#8220;Our language is at stake. Our younger generation is not well acquainted with our mother tongue; the way they speak, they lack grammar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Bishakha Das, a linguist from Delhi, has been working on the project to develop the orthography (alphabet), dictionary and grammar in Roman script. &#8220;Once the project is completed, we will introduce Sherdukpen as the third language in all schools under Sherdukpen jurisdictions,&#8221; Thongdok added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Field linguist Dr. Das, who has been here for the past month as an independent researcher, is focusing on the development of the alphabet. She said, &#8220;Once the alphabet, grammar and dictionary are developed, books for readers will be introduced, and the language will soon be implemented as the third language in schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Khandu Thungon, the local technical head of the project, informed that a workshop had already been organized last Friday in the presence of P.K Thungon, the general secretary of Sherdukpen Blu, and local villagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Prem Chetry ] SHERGAON, 24 Nov: In an effort to transform the Mey (Sherdukpen) language into a written script, the development of its orthography is underway in Shergaon, a project under the All Sherdukpen Blu (ASB) in West Kameng district. Former minister and president of ASB, D.K Thongdok, said, &#8220;Our language is at stake. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-252775","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\/252775","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=252775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}