Poula dialect dictionary workshop held
Source: Chronicle News Service
Senapati, November 27 2022:
A six-day Poula dialect dictionary workshop conducted by Poumai Literature Society under the chairmanship of Dr N Ngupani Tao concluded on Saturday.
The workshop organised at National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), Senapati was participated by representatives from almost all Poumai Naga villages.
Members of the Literature Society along with postdoctoral researcher from French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) Dr Sahiinii L Veikho were the resource persons of the workshop, which was organised to primarily support community members to come up with a consistent spelling system - particularly the tone marking in the alphabets.
The dialect dictionary once published will be a reference book for any literary writing in the coming days.
The organisers also expressed their gratitude to NIELIT, Senapati Extension Centre officer-in-charge and Scientist-E Y Subhaschandra Singh and NIELIT Senapati Extension Centre faculty member KL Rita Kho for their support and providing office space and systems for the said programme.