Workshop on finding Manipuri terminologies begins
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 05 2014:
The Directorate of Language Planning & Implementation (DLPI) said on Monday steps are being taken up to publish text books in original Manipuri script for upto the graduate level in Manipur.
Inaugurating a 10-day workshop on 'finding of Manipuri terminologies' at SCERT hall, Lamphelpat here, DLPI Joint Director, Dr L Mahavir said efforts will be made during the workshop to find out new Manipuri terminologies for publication of text books of Physics, Economics and geography for upto graduate level in the native language.
Experts on these subjects are taking part in the workshop towards this end, he said, adding the subject experts will deliberate on discovering as many as 30, 000 Manipuri terminologies to replace English terminologies used in the above three subjects.
All the practicable Manipuri terminologies will later be put in a Manipuri dictionary too, he said.
Speaking at the function, which was also attended by DLPI Director, Ch Raghumani, Prof C Amuba, former Vice-Chancellor, Manipur University, admitted that a lot of Manipuri terminologies will be required to change English terminologies in the text books so it would be a time consuming work.
Nonetheless, it is a good step that DLPI is planning to bring out text books in Manipuri language; Prof Amuba said.