Mishing Language - History

History

Few important historical milestones of Mishing language:

  1. First Mishing grammar was written in 1849 by Rev. Robinson in 'Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal' ((Vol, 18, part 1, page 224).
  2. After that British Political officer, Joseph Francis Needham, based in Sadiya published another Mishing grammaer 'Outline grammar of the Shaiyang Miri Language as spoken by the Miris of that clan residing the neighbourhood of Sadiya', 1886.
  3. First Mishing books were published by Reverend JamesHerbert Lorrain in 1902 with name 'Isorke Doyinge'( Story of God) and Jisuke Doyinge ( Story of Jesus) in 1902.
  4. First Mising dictionary was published in 1910, from Shillong by Reverend James Herbert Lorrain.
  5. After that, Rev. LWB Jackman published "Keyum kero Kitab (1914)", "Rom Kiding kela Korintian Doying (1916) and "Mathike Annam Baibal" (1917).

So, Mishing language was converted to written form with written grammar way back in 1849. Recently, since 1980, lot of books, magazines, news papers have been published in Mishing language.

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