TRIBAL LINGUISTIC RIGHTS DAMAGED

Tribal or Adivasi India was the land of 98% of indigenous peoples in the country, who had their own languages, literature cultures and elements of folklore. In the course of time the invading peoples suppressed these indigenous peoples, their languages, cultures and folklore. And today, they are with no languages of their own, or they are still in the developing stages. But the languages of some of the major tribes of India, such as of Bhils, Bhilalas, Warlis, Gonds, Oraons, Khadia, Munda, Santhals , Nagas, etc are capable of delivering required goods to their own indigenous communities and serve effectrively the cultural or linguistic human rights which are the need of time. Some of the tribes , though demographically not large enough, but their literature is very rich and provide capabilities for modern day communications they need and sifficiently indicate to be useful intruments to be a means of tribal communications even for education and development within thier communities and in our country. This gives us encouragement and a strong linguistic ground to claim that the many if not most of the tribal languages have potentialities to be effective bearers of their own educational, economic and other forms of development.

In these cases, why to depend on the non functional elements of languages which are imposed on the tribals from outside by the non tribals, when they have their own means of communications. It is high time that the state Governments of India respect the tribal liguistic rights of the indigenous peoples of India and restore them in time without further breaching tribal human and cultural rights today.

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