An Introduction to Bodo Script: Reading and Writing' comprises many primary forms for learning Bodo, which depend upon attainment of perfection in pronouncing the invariable 'semi vowels' borne words through practice of writing and reading. I have no doubt that this unique book shall make learners rich by enlightening them towards little known Bodo language. I admire the editors' energy and vigour to undertake such an enormous task which will continue something new of its kind. I wish them to continue such great efforts in bringing out more works of this nature.
An Introduction to Bodo Script: Reading and Writing is a semi-auto instructional introduction to reading and writing of Bodo script adapted from Devanagari Script. The main aim of this book is to enable the language learners how to write and read Bodo. Suitable hand movements followed in traditional Bodo letter writing, with the help of necessary arrow marks are used. Moreover, both Roman Alphabet and International Phonetic Alphabet are used to show the same or closemost pronunciations of the letters.
Aleendra Brahma was born and brought up in a very remote village Madanguri adjacent to Manas National Park, Baksa, Assam. His father Late Rajendra Brahma was a school teacher and his mother Late Dipali Goyari Brahma was a homemaker.
He has authored twelve books, edited six books and translated three books. Presently, he is working as an L-JRO in CIIL.
Bridal Basumotary was born in a remote village Bongurum under Udalguri, Assam to Late Halang Basumatary and Mrs Miri Basumatary. He worked in LDC-IL, CIL from 2009 to 2013. Then, he worked as a Linguist in a DIT sponsored project ILCI (Phase-11) in the Dept of Bodo, Gauhati University. Presently, he is working as a lecturer in Bodo in NERLC.
The idea of bringing out 'Script Book Series of Indian languages' had been conceived several decades back along with the primary objectives of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru.
This is a semi-auto instructional introduction to reading and writing of Bodo script adapted from Devanagari Script. The main aim of this book is to impart knowledge about how to write the Bodo letters and read them. To make the learning to write easy, suitable hand movements followed in traditional Bodo letter writing, with the help of necessary arrow marks are used. On the other hand, Roman and International Phonetic Alphabets are used to show the same or closemost pronunciations of the Bodo letters.
To show the graphemics similarities and phonemic similarities of the letters there are two types of distribution of the letters; one is on the basis of the similarities in shape and sizes of the letters whereas the other is on the basis of similarities in the places of articulation of the letters. At the level of writing the letters the letters are divided into different groups on the basis of their shapes and sizes whereas they are divided into different groups on the basis of the similarities in producing the sounds represented by them. To develop the writing ability of the learners from easy to difficult levels, the letters in the groups and even the groups are arranged from easy to difficult ones.
Proper hand movement instructions in writing the individual letters, clusters and even numerals are given in this book to show the left to right or right to left, top to bottom or bottom to top and clockwise or anticlockwise movements in writing the letters and numerals. These are followed by writing practices and exercises. Then, a good number of groups of monosyllabic and bisyllabic words are taken together in the reading and writing practices to enhance the writing and reading abilities along with the introduction to simple lexical items.
The learners can comfortably use pencils to practice writing in the pages of the book itself without the use of any extra sheet or copy, so that they can erase the written letters, words and numerals and practice more than once.
This script book is designed especially for the L2 learners in RLCs under CIIL. But, any first language learners can also use this book to learn writing and reading the Bodo language.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages was established on 17 July 1969 with a primary objective to fulfil the Government of India's resolution that envisaged a set of concrete measures for the development of Major Indian languages. The Institute is also charged with the responsibility of conducting research on all the minor and lesser-known as well as endangered languages of the country to bring out grammars, dictionaries, style manuals, standardised writing and reading instructions, language pedagogy materials and language technology tools for such languages.
In order to implement the Institute's goal of developing the major Indian Languages and bring them into our teaching and research scheme mainly meant for the school teachers, the Institute has set up seven Regional Language Centres in the various linguistic regions of the country to help and meet the demand for trained teachers. This was thought in order to implement the three language formula and the assurances given to linguistic minorities. These Centres are charged with the responsibilities of developing need based materials and methods of teaching Indian languages as second/foreign languages, train secondary school teachers in languages other than their mother tongues with a view to providing more language choice to young students in secondary schools and thus heighten the awareness of the diversity which goes into the building of the mosaic of Indian Culture through their activities such as inter language translations, original writing in another language, etc.
The script book of a language can establish as the backbone of the writing and reading systems of that language. This book An Introduction to Bodo Script: Reading and Writing prepared in a workshop organised in North-Eastern Regional Language Centre, Guwahati and edited by Aleendra Brahma and Bridul Basumatary introduces the writing method of Bodo Script to the learners, the individual pronunciations of the letters and the reading method. This semi auto instructional book has illustrations in English designed and formatted in such a way that the learners can get acquinted with the Bodo script system in a more natural and scientific manner.
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