Although they know how to read and write Bangla and English, many children of the Chakma community do not know the alphabets of their own language. As a result, they are showing less interest in their ...

In a country where people laid down their lives about seventy years ago to uphold the dignity of their mother tongue, Bangla, the struggle is still on to preserve mother tongues of smaller ethnic ...

Tripura is set to integrate the Chakma script into Google Translate, announced Minister Ratan Lal Nath. Seven sub-committees will digitize around 50,000 Chakma words, alongside plans for a National ...

‘Mor Thengari’ (‘My Bicycle’) is the first feature film made entirely in Chakma, an indigenous language spoken by the Chakma ethnic minority in Bangladesh. Directed by Aung Rakhine, the film centers ...

“Mor Thengari” alternatively called My Bicycle, the first feature film entirely made in Chakma language, was premièred at the 13th Dhaka Short and Independent Film Festival in the first week of ...

The pre-primary ingenious students are finding it tough to read the books for not having proper tuition. Most pre-school indigenous children in Rangamati are facing trouble dealing with the books ...

Children of different ethnic minorities in the hill communities received the rights to learn the mother tongue eight years ago, but made no headway due to the lack of proper government initiatives and ...