National Indigenous Women's Federation with support from Pawanka Fund from 16 February 2026 to 27 January 2027 jointly implement the project intitled " Orthography Development Project in Endangered Languages of Nepal".
Project Background:
Developing writing system is very important to the endangered languages of Nepal. Nepal is now moving to federal system and use of languages in the Local level is now discussing. There are many languages which are spoken by few populations of indigenous group but vigorous which are going to be neglected to recognize to use in local levels because the languages have not started to write. So, it is very important to develop the writing system, teaching to write their languages. It is also important to develop to preserve by written documents and it also create respect to the indigenous languages when it is written. It is already a big step to write the unwritten languages but this step should be taken. Choosing script, standardization, dialects, community acceptances etc. will be challenges for this project. The previous study on that languages will be studied, discussion with community will be priorities, linguistic and technical problem will be observed before the projects implement. After developing the orthography, the spelling guide, alphabet chart, book etc. will be published and distributed to the community so that the community acceptance will increase and writing system will standardize.
Project Objectives:
- To project Indigenous Four community critically endangered languages; Hayu, Kisan, Byasisauka and Chhantyal; by developing standaedizing and promoting orthographies through community-led and linguistically informed process.
The project is currently under Implementation.
