Bodo language biography of abraham

Anthropologically, the Bodos are of Mongoloid descent, but linguistically, they are of Sino Tibetan descent. Bodos migrated from North Western China between the Huang Ho and Yang tsze Kiang rivers around 2000 B.C.

and are now scattered throughout North East India. This indigenous group has its own language, culture, and traditions. Despite the fact that they did not have written literature at first, their oral literature and folk tale culture are noteworthy.

Following the Treaty of Yandaboo in 1826, Baptist missionaries arrived in the North East with the sole purpose of spreading Christianity.

Learning a community's language seemed the best way to socialise with them, and the missionaries did just that.

*Reverend Sidney Endle's publication of Outline Grammar of Kachari (Bara)language, the first book on bodo grammar, laid the groundwork for Bodo literature.

*In 1895, J.D.

Anderson compiled and published A collection of Kachari folk tales