The
tribal people in India have for long lived in isolation except
to be exposed for exploitation. They have not pariticipated
to their benefit in the socioeconomic 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 their bridges the communication
gap only 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 people of the region. For this
purpose, the majority people, especially those who come in
contract with the trible people for various reasons such as
civil administration, security, socail service, trade, etc.,
should learn their language. The Grammar, which forms part
of the package consisting of phonetic reader, bi-or tri-lingual
dictionary and teaching manual is prepared to help them in
their learning of the tribal language. |
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 already
knows and wants to express, are formalised in this language.
Since this Grammar is primarily meant for pedagogical purposes,
theoretical discussions and justifications for a particular
analysis are kept to a minmum. The Grammar is divided generally
into two broad categories of noun morphology and verb morphology.
A description of adjectives and adverbs follows verb morphology.
The chapter on syntax describes the order of the consitiuents
at the surface level |
