DIMAPUR, DECEMBER 1 (MExN): The Nagamese Baptist Churches Association Literature Committee (NBCALC) has submitted suggestions for uplift and implementation of Nagamese common language within Naga inhabited areas as deliberated during the 8th NBCA annual conference at Kuda Village, Dimapur.
The NBCALC said no one can deny that the Nagamese language is the common language of Nagas in Nagaland since the British-Indian government and the same language is widely spoken in all parts of Northeast as well as in Myanmar.
n a representation addressed to C.L John, Minister of RD & REPA, the Committee has suggested that there should be only one Nagamese Bible and Nagamese songbook for the whole churches in Naga inhabited areas.
There should be only one Nagamese dictionary and grammar book and proper linguistic, alphabet and vocabulary should be worked out systematically in a very simple manner.
There shall be only one Nagamese Churches Association in all Naga inhabited areas covering Myanmar.
The Nagamese common language department should be set up separately and looked after by Education Department with a separate branch of Nagamese language to assist it for the successful implementation as Naga common language.
In order to implement effectively and to avoid any confusion, the Committee suggested that all the existing books written and printed in Nagamese language including the Bible and songbooks should be abolished/set aside and bring out a common language books based on proper and uniform structures of Nagamese language.
However, the Nagamese dictionary and grammar, Nagamese hymnal song book, Nagamese church manual, books, etc which already have been released by NBCA, NCRC, UBCA NE-I etc should be referred. A separate subject on Nagamese should be introduced in school and college level in Nagaland.
A state level committee should be formed with intellectuals and elders representing all Naga major tribes for consultation and successful implementation of Nagamese as common language.
.jpg)
