{"id":262599,"date":"2023-10-03T20:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=262599"},"modified":"2023-10-03T20:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T15:16:34","slug":"toto-language-a-dictionary-to-save-a-language-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/toto-language-a-dictionary-to-save-a-language-from-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto Language: A dictionary to save a language from extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cToto Language: A dictionary to save a language from extinction\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 2nd October 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A dictionary titled \u201cToto Shabda Sangraha\u201d is set to be released with the aim of preserving the Toto language.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Toto Language?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toto is a Sino-Tibetan language.It is primarily spoken orally and is currently written in the Bengali script.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is spoken by barely 1,600 people living in parts of West Bengal bordering Bhutan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> listed as a critically endangered language by UNESCO.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is <\/b><b>Toto Shabda Sangraha?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toto Shabda Sangraha is a dictionary developed with the aim of preserving the Toto language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dictionary has been compiled by Bhakta Toto, a bank employee-cum-poet, and published jointly by the trust and Bhasha Samsad<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cToto Language: A dictionary to save a language from extinction\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 2nd October 2023 What is the News? A dictionary titled \u201cToto Shabda Sangraha\u201d is set to be released with the aim of preserving the Toto language. What is Toto Language? Toto is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/toto-language-a-dictionary-to-save-a-language-from-extinction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toto Language: A dictionary to save a language from extinction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,9],"tags":[11872,10498],"class_list":["post-262599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":12,"cached_at":1698478127,"cached_date":1698659838},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}