AGARTALA, Dec 22 (TIWN): A 2 day long seminar begins at Sahid Bhagat Singh Hostel on Chakma Grammar and Dictionary.

The programme was organized by  Directorate of Kokborok and Other Minorities language and the advisory committee for Kokborok language.

Chakma language (Changma Vaj or Changma Kodha) is an Indo-European language spoken by the Chakma and Daingnet people. Its better-known closest relatives are Bengali, Assamese, Chittagonian  and Rohingya of Arakan, Bishnupriya Manipuri of Manipur, Tanchangya, and Sylheti. It is spoken by nearly 310,000 people in southeast Bangladesh near Chittagong City, and another 300,000 in India in Mizoram, Assam, and Tripura. It is written using the Chakma script, which is also called Ajhā pāṭh, sometimes romanized Ojhopath. Literacy in Chakma script is low.