The tribal people in India have for long lived in isolation except to be exposed for exploitation. They have not participated to their benifit in the socio-economic development of the country.To come out of their isolation, it is necessary for them to learn the language of the majority people around them and a number of them have done so. But this bridges the communication gap only in in one way and the whole burden of building up this bridge is carried by the minority group. It is necessary, however, for developing mutual understanding and good-will, to increase bidirectional communication between the tribal people and the majority of the people of the region. For this purpose, the majority people, especially those who come n contact with the tribal people for various reasom\ns such as civil administration, security, social services, trade4 etc., should learn their language. The Grammar, which forms part of the consisting of phonetic reader, bi- or tri-lingual dictionary and teaching manual is prepared to help them in their learning of the tribal laanguage.

The organisation of the Grammar is based on grammatical functions rather than on grammatical forms. This will help the new learner to find easily how the different functions, which he alresdy knows and wants to express, are formalised in this language. Since this Grammar is primarily meant for pedagogical purposes, theoretical discussions and justification for a particular analysis are kept to a minimum. The Grammar is divided generally into two broad categories of noun morphology and verb morphology. A description of adjectives and adverbs follows verb morphlogy. The chapter on syntax describes the order of the constituents aat the surface level.

Though the Grammar is promarily aimed at the language lerner and the teacher, it is hoped that it will also be useful to Linguistis interested in typology and universals.

Datd for the Grammar were collected in the field primarily from one informant by elicitation through word and sentence lists. They were then cross-checked with some other informants. the description may not be exhaustive and there might be gaps. There might be possibilities for alternative analyses. Comments and suggestions passed on to us will be useful to improve our future publication in this series.