In an initiative aimed at revitalising the Koya tribal language, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to rope in ‘Native Speakers’ who will teach the students of the primary schools in their native language in Chintoor agency of Alluri Sitarama Raju district.
The School Management Committee (SMC) has been entrusted with the task of identifying and engaging the native speakers, who should be living in that particular village or gram panchayat. The SMC is formed with the parents of the students enrolled in the respective schools.
The United Nations Organisation (UNO) has declared 2022-32 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages and its estimates claimed that ‘‘at least 50 percent of today’s spoken languages will be extinct or seriously endangered by 2100”.
