The Mising Agom Kébang (MAK) is a non-governmental organisation which aims to preserve and develop the

Mising language Miri or Mising, also known as Plains Miri, is a Tani language spoken by the Mising people. There are 629,954 speakers (as per Census of India, 2011), who inhabit mostly the Lakhimpur, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Jorhat, Majuli, Go ...

, a language of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, India. It was established on 18 April 1972 at Disangmukh in the district of

Sivasagar Sivasagar (Pron: or ) ("the sea of Shiva"), is a city in and headquarters of the Sivasagar district, Assam. Sivasagar is situated about 360 kilometers (224 mi) northeast of Guwahati. It is well known for its Ahom palaces and monuments. S ...

Assam Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...

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. The jurisdiction of MAK is the state of Assam, and it operates through its branches, named Bangke Agom Kébang (BAK).

History

Nahendra Padun, a research student at

Gauhati University Gauhati University, also known as GU, is a Collegiate university, collegiate public state university located in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established on 26 January 1948 under the provisions of an Act enacted by the Assam Legislative Assem ...

, and Prof. Tabu Taid, a lecturer in English at Cotton College,

Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ...

, considered carrying the efforts of the Guwahati Mising Kebang at the level of the Mising community as a whole. They organized an open meeting at Disangmukh,

Sibsagar Sivasagar (Pron: or ) ("the sea of Shiva"), is a city in and headquarters of the Sivasagar district, Assam. Sivasagar is situated about 360 kilometers (224 mi) northeast of Guwahati. It is well known for its Ahom palaces and monuments. S ...

district, Assam on April 17 and 18, 1972. After deliberations, a resolution was adopted in the meeting on April 18, 1972 to set up an organization named Mising Agom Kebang (MAK), with Tabu Ram Taid as its first president and Nahendra Padun as its first secretary.

Activities

The MAK took up the question of a suitable script for the

. After a series of seminars and discussions, it decided to adopt the Roman system of writing for the language with extensive modification in the light of phonetic science and graphology vis-a-vis the phonemics of Mising.Language builds a bond - Misings & Adis to use common modified script
, ''The Telegraph'' MAK has also launched publications of books and periodicals written in Mising language as well as on Mising language, literature, and culture, beginning with the publication of school primers. MAK also took up with the government of Assam for the introduction of Mising language in the primary schools in Mising villages, and in 1985 the government agreed to do so.

References

External links

www.misingagomkebang.org

misingonline.com
- website on TMPK {{Assam Dhemaji district Culture of Assam

History

Activities

See also

References

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