Hi, Instead of thinking about safeguarding Kamrupi dialect i think we should think about safeguarding Assamese language.Even if Kamrupi which is a dialect and not a language becomes extinct we can revive it later on.
Are we living in a fool's paradise? Do you know what the results of the 2001 census were? Do you think that Assamese is still the single-largest spoken language in Assam? Many of us are posting in various forums that within the next 10 years we would become minority in our own land. But what nobody knows is that we have already become minority. According to the 2001 census Assam has already become a Bengali majority state. According to it the percentage of Bengali-speaking ppl in Assam is 45% out of which 15 % are Bengali-speaking Hindus who came mostly during the partition of our country but the remaining 30% consists of Bengali-speaking Muslims. Why 45% of the population being Bengali-speaking makes Assam Bengali majority is because the tribal population of Assam(of which Bodo is the largest tribe) who constitute around 20% of the population have alienated themselves from the Assamese fold and have carved out their separate identity. Whatever be the case, we are in a grave danger of losing our identity forever! But, still there is hope! A sizeable population of the Bangladeshis are there in the Bengali-speaking Barak valley. So the proportion of Bengali-speaking ppl in the Brahmaputra valley is not equal to 45% of the entire population of Assam. It's high time that we rise from our deep sleep and understand the gravity of the situation. Kindly spread this message to as many as possible. Read the following article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3607471.stm Subhash --- On Fri, 12/26/08, Dhyanjyoti Deka <[email protected]> wrote: ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/assamonline/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
