Supradip Chakma, the affairs adviser for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), urged everyone involved today to protect the languages of the several tiny ethnic groups.
“Scientists will once be able to restore and preserve the words and phrases of people that floating in the ‘Ether’. Therefore, we need to restore our lost languages,” he said.
The adviser made the call while speaking at a workshop titled ‘Preparation, Distribution and Implementation Review of Primary Level Textbooks in five languages of small ethnic groups’ at National Curriculum and Textbook Board’s auditorium here as chief guest.
“41 languages of various communities of small ethnic groups in our country have so far been restored,” he added.
The adviser said that there are some communities in CHT whose population is very small but they also have their own languages.
“For example, Lusai community has a population of 2,500. But their mother tongue also needs to be included in the textbooks,” he said. CHT Secretary (Routine Duty) Md Monirul Islam, Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education Masud Akhter Khan, and NCTB Chairman Prof Rabiul Kabir Chowdhury were among those who spoke at the event, which was chaired by Secretary of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education Abu Taher Md Masud Rana.
