This Arunachal man is on a mission to give shape to his tribal dialect

Neotan (Arunachal): Wanglung Mossang, a farmer from a small village in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh, is conducting evening classes for college students and graduates to give a writing system to his tribal dialect.

“There are so many dialects spoken in Arunachal Pradesh. The Tangsa tribe alone has more than 40 sub-tribes with each having its own dialect, and without a written form. All of them use Roman script,” says the 55-year-old from Neotan village under Miao subdivision. 

“My aim is to preserve our Tangsa language, which, according to a recent study, is marked as an endangered language.”