12 Facts About Kokborok

Kokborok is the main native language of the Tripuri people of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh.

Kokborok has been attested since at least the 1st century AD, when the historical record of Tripuri kings began to be written down.

Kokborok was relegated to a common people's dialect during the rule of the Tripuri kings in the Kingdom of Tipra from the 19th century till the 20th century.

Kokborok was declared an official language of the state of Tripura, India by the state government in the year 1979.

Kokborok was introduced in the Bachelor of Arts degree in the colleges affiliated to the Tripura University from the year 2012, and a Masters of Arts (MA) degree in Kokborok was started by Tripura University from the year 2015.

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Early scholars of Kokborok decided to use the letter w as a symbol for a vowel that does not exist in English.

In Kokborok spelling, u is used for the sound in the diphthongs and (used finally, spelled as uo).

One major translation of the 20th century was the "Smai Kwtal", the New Testament of the Bible in Kokborok language, published in 1976 by the Bible Society of India.

Full Holy Bible in Kokborok language was finally published for the first time in the year 2013 by the Bible Society of India.

Library of Kokborok books has been functioning in Khumulwng town since 2015.

Also, there are more than 30 Government schools where Kokborok is taught in the higher secondary school level under the Tripura Board of Secondary Education.

Kokborok had a script known as Koloma, developed in the 1st century CE and used by the Royal Family of Tripura.