The Tai Literature Committee of Namsai district was formed on 1960

The Tai Literature Committee of Namsai district was formed on 1960. After a long and ceaseless efforts, the committee at last achieved its goal. The committee achieved this goal in the year 1988 being attended by various Tai scholars who were again assisted by several philologist.
Following are the contributions of the"Tai Literature Commitee":
a. The Commitee was successful in correcting the writing systems of the script.
b. It provided devices for tonal symbols of the vowels.
c. It devised and added new and suitable alphabet in the consonant sector.
d. Printing types of the script were made and
e. The committee made the script suitable for printing machines.
In this way, the Tai Commitee has successfully reformed the original script, making it perfect from every side. To begin with several school text books in Tai script were being printed in 1933 and introduced in the school of Tai speaking areas of Namsai district, Arunachal Pradesh.

-Chow Khouk Manpoong: Op.Cit. p.6
C.K Lungkeing: Op.Cit,P.17

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