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India: The Death Of Bo Language

Categories: South Asia, India, History, Indigenous, Language

Madhu Baganiar, who belongs to the indigenous Oraon (Kurukh) community comments [1] on the demise of Bo language with the death of Boa senior, the lone survivor of the Bo tribe: “tribal language(s) could be preserved and (could) prosper through known script only, as the pace of alienation of tribal language is more rapid than the preservation and creating literature and infrastructure.”