Mundari Bani
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| Mundari Bani | |
|---|---|
 'Mundari' in Mundari Bani Script | |
| Script type | |
| Creator | Rohidas Singh Nag |
| Created | 1982 |
Time period | 1982 to present |
| Direction | Left to Right |
| Region | Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam (India) |
| Languages | Mundari |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | original inventor
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Mundari Bani (Mundari: Bani 'alphabet', also known as Mundari Bani Hisir with Hisir 'writing', or the Mundari alphabet), is the native writing system for the Mundari language, spoken in eastern India. Mundari is an Austroasiatic language. Mundari Bani has 27 letters and five diacritics, the forms of which are intended to evoke natural shapes. The script is written from left to right.
Community elder and author Rohidas Singh Nag invented and published the alphabetic writing system Mundari Bani in late 1980, and has seen limited but increasing use in literature, education, and computing.
History
Rohidas Singh Nag invented the initial characters of Mundari bani in 1949[1][2] which he wrote on the walls using clay. He finished all the 35 characters in 1953. He further simplified the alphabet in 1980 by reducing it to a total of 27 characters. Nag presented the alphabet to then-Chief Minister of Odisha Janaki Ballabh Patnaik and submitted a memorandum to recognize the Munda language constitutionally. Nag along with others submitted a memorandum to the then president of India in 1999 appealing again for the constitutional recognition. "Mundari Samaj Sanwar Jamda", a social organisation of the Munda community based in Poda Astia, Mayurbhanj has been demanding to incorporate the Munda language in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, to air Munda language through All India Radio, and establish a Munda language department at North Odisha University for higher studies on the basis of the writing system and literature.[3] The writing system has seen limited but increasing use in literature, education, and computing.
References
- ^ Know Your State West Bengal. Arihant Experts. 22 August 2019. p. 272. ISBN 9789313198017.
- ^ Wolf-Sonkin, Lawrence; Mandal, Biswajit (8 January 2021). "Proposal to Encode the Mundari Bani Script in the Universal Character Set" (pdf). Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- ^ "page no.96, Adivasi, A Journal of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2016.