An Introduction to Assamese Script: Reading and Writing is a semi-auto instructional introduction to reading and writing the Assamese Script. The main aim of this book is to enable the language learners how to write and read Assamese. Commonly used but suitable hand movements followed in traditional Assamese letter writing, with the help of necessary steps and arrow marks are used. Moreover, Roman and International Phonetic Alphabets are used to show the same, similar or closemost pronunciations of the letters.
The idea of bringing out 'Script Book Series of Indian languages' had been ruminated several decades back along with the primary objectives of Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru.
This is a semi-auto instructional introduction to reading and writing of Assamese script. The main aim of this book is to impart knowledge about how to write the Assamese letters and read them. To make the learning to write easy, suitable hand movements followed in traditional Assamese letter writing, with the help of necessary arrow marks are used. On the other hand, Roman and International Phonetic Alphabets are used to show the same, similar or closemost pronunciations of the Assamese letters.
To show the graphemics similarities and phonemic similarities of the letters there are two types of distribution of the letters; one is on the basis of the similarities in shape and sizes of the letters whereas the other is on the basis of similarities in the places of articulation of the letters. At the level of writing the letters, the letters are divided into different groups on the basis of their shapes and sizes whereas they are divided into different groups on the basis of the similarities in producing the sounds represented by them. To develop the writing ability of the learners from easy to difficult levels, the letters in the groups and even the groups are arranged from easy to difficult ones.
Proper hand movement instructions in writing the individual letters, clusters and even numerals are given in this book to show the left to right or right to left, top to bottom or bottom to top and clockwise or anticlockwise movements in writing the letters and numerals. These are followed by writing practices and exercises. Then, a good number of groups of monosyllabic and bisyllabic words are taken together in the reading and writing practices to enhance the writing and reading abilities along with the introduction to simple lexical items. The learners can comfortably use pencils to practice writing in the pages of the book itself without the use of any extra sheet or copy, so that they can erase the written letters, words and numerals and practice more than once.
This script book is designed especially for the L2 learners in RLCs under CIIL. But, any first language learners can also use this book to learn writing and reading the Assamese language.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) celebrates its Golden Jubilee this year after completing 50 years of excellence. The Institute was established on July 17, 1969 by the Government of India in Mysuru to help in evolving and implementing the language policy of the Government and to coordinate the development of Indian Languages by conducting research in the areas of language analysis, language pedagogy, language technology and language use in the society.
It began its journey with several units of research such as Tribal and Border Languages, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Material Production and Training. Testing and Evaluation, Educational Technology, Lexicography and Translation, Cartography, Folklore and Computer Applications. In addition to this, seven Regional Language Centres were set up at Mysuru, Patiala, Bhubaneswar, Pune, Lucknow, Solan and Guwahati with a goal of implementing the three language formula and thereby contribute to national integration. These Centres offer a 10 month Diploma in Language Education in second languages and teach 20 Indian languages to non-native speakers mainly to in-service teachers, prospective teachers, research scholars and general public. CIIL was one of the few institutions that initiated work on natural language processing in the early 1990s. It has interdisciplinary academic collaborations with various institutions at both national and international levels. The Institute is well recognised by the academic fraternity across the globe for the quality of its wide-ranging linguistic research and language studies.
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