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Source: <span class="">The Sangai Express / Newmai News Network</span></p>
<span class="">Imphal, January 08 2015:</span>
Council of Tribal Languages & Literature Societies, Manipur (CTLLSM)
today urged the Governor through a memorandum to direct the Manipur
Government to give patronage to all tribal languages of the State by
allocating budget for their promotion.<br><br>There is a firm rooted
"linguistic racism" in Manipur with an unseen agenda and it is found in
the State budgetary documents since the creation of the State of
Manipur, the memorandum to Governor Dr KK Paul said.<br><br>It said the
decades-old State-sponsored linguistic racism has suppressed and ruined
the cherished hope and vision of tribal languages in Manipur, apart from
weakening the spirit of belongingness of the tribal people.<br><br>Thirty-four
tribal languages of the State need funds to the tune of Rs 289.70 lakh
per annum but there is no fund allocation for these languages in the
State budget, it said, adding CTLLSM has submitted several
representations to the State Government in this regard but no response
has been given till date.<br><br>It said the Manipur Government is
ruining the fabric of "unity in diversity" of the State by adopting
anti-tribal language policy, creating an artificial gap between the
linguistically advanced people of the plain and linguistically backward
people of the hills.<br><br>The State Government is promoting Meiteilon
(Manipuri), Hindi and English only by totally neglecting tribal
languages, it alleged.<br><br>The State-sponsored linguistic racism is
quite visible in Manipur since the Council of Higher Secondary
Education, Manipur (COHSEM) is charging Rs 15,000 as language and
visiting fees from schools which want to introduce tribal languages as
subjects, which has discouraged many schools and denied opportunity to
tribal students who want to learn their own languages, the memorandum
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