New script for tribal languages in India

A short article in the online newspaper newKerala.com reports that the Abo Tani group of tribes in the Arunachal Pradesh area of India is to have their own script for transcribing their languages. The script is called Tanilipi (www.tanilipi.com is no longer live), and it was authorised in 2001 as a common script for use with these indigenous languages. The script's creator, Toni Koyu, claimed that Roman and Devanagari scripts were not useful for representing these tribal languages, but that it would help restore and preserve those tribal languages that are on the verge of extinction.