[lg policy] Memo seeks to promote Tenyidie in schools By Our Correspondent / February 13, 2019 / Comments Off on Memo seeks to promote Tenyidie in schools Share Print Email Our Correspondent Kohima, Feb.12 (EMN): The Ura Academy Tenyidie Mission Project and the Razeba Public Organisation (RPO) have signed a memorandum of understanding to promote the Tenyidie dialect in schools. The memorandum was signed at the Ura Academy Hall, in Kohima on Tuesday. The main objective of the agreement is to endorse Tenyidie as the common standard language among the Tenyimia people. The secretary general of the academy, Prof. D Kuolie said that such an initiative was aimed at bringing the Tenyimi community together through a common dialect i.e., Tenyidie. The academy’s board of directors has passed a resolution to sponsor the dialect to the Tenyimi areas, he said. He expressed hope that the dialect will serve as an instrument toward better understanding and closer contact for the community. Kuol

[Harold Schiffman]

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 Harold F. Schiffman

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 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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