WHAT makes a nation adopt a new script? İlker Aytürk, a political scientist with a penchant for the history of language at Ankara's Bilkent University, tackles this question in a new paper in the ...

On the Hindi author and playwright’s latest work, ‘Mushkil Kaam’, a collection of Hindi short stories presented in the Roman script. PREMIUM Hindi writer Asghar Wajahat has been calling for an ...

Let’s first make it clear that “language” and “script” are two different things. “Language” is a verbal system of communication. A “script” is simply the collection of symbols used to represent that ...

Ahead of assembly elections in Goa, a movement was launched in the state demanding official language status to Konkani written in Roman script. PANAJI: Ahead of assembly elections in Goa, a movement ...

BJP’s partner in the Tripura government, TIPRA Motha founder Pradyot Kishore Debbarman, expressed his displeasure over a recent statement of Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha opposing Roman script for ...

The movement for the Roman script of Kokborok (tribal dialect) has turned volatile after leader of the opposition Animesh Debbarma on Sunday threatened to collapse the BJP-led government 'like a house ...

Calcutta: Rabindranath Tagore's Sahoj Path is getting introduced to beginners through a language and a script they are familiar with. Just that the language and the script are not the same. "We have a ...

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha is contemplating to introduce Roman script for Kokborok, a major tribal language in the state. The minister assured that his government will write to the Central ...

New Delhi: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi used the Roman script to speak inside the Lok Sabha at the time of Lalitgate debate on Wednesday. Rahul was caught on camera yesterday holding a sheaf ...

Use of Roman script to replace the writing system of Sindhi language in Arabic script for a selected group of non-Sindhi readers has started to draw attention of some Sindhi linguists and writers. The ...

Tribal student organisations in Tripura hold torch rallies demanding official recognition of the Roman script for Kokborok language.

Twipra Students' Federation (TSF) activists blocked the VIP road leading to the airport, Assembly, and High Court in Agartala today amid their indefinite statewide strike demanding the adoption of the ...