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 ...

ALTHOUGH discouraged by intellectuals, eminent Urdu writers and academicians, the use of Roman script for writing Urdu language is extremely common among social media and mobile phone users. In fact, ...

Last week, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha declared that his government would not agree to the Kokborok language, spoken by Tripura’s tribal groups, being written in the Roman script. These groups ...