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Toto(Dengka) language

January 28, 2023
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In news– Dhaniram Toto has received Padma shri award for “developing script of critically endangered Toto (Dengka)language.

About Toto (Dengka)language-

  • Toto is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken on the border of India and Bhutan, by the tribal Toto people in Totopara, West Bengal along the border with Bhutan. 
  • It is also spoken in Subhapara, Dhunchipara, and Panchayatpara hillocks on India-Bhutan border in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal.
  • The language now has 37 alphabets.
  • Dhaniram Toto is the first author to write a novel in Toto language.
  • Despitelacking any formal training as a Linguist, he is the architect of the Toto  language script(2015), preserving the indigenous language.
  • Toto, is a dying language – listed as critically endangered by UNESCO.
  • The Himalayan Languages Project is working on the first grammatical sketch of Toto.

Toto community-

  • Toto is a small tribal community having a population of only 1,632 people living in Toto Para in Alipurduar district, on the edge of north Bengal near the India-Bhutan border, and speaking the eponymous language.
  • The Totos are considered having Mongoloid features. 
  • Toto family is patrilocal in nature dominated by nuclear type. However, joint family is not rare. Monogamy is common form of marriage among the Toto but polygamy is not prohibited. 
  • If a man’s wife dies, he may marry the deceased wife’s younger sister, but a woman cannot marry her deceased husband’s brother. 
  • On the death of a spouse, the husband or wife must remain single for twelve months before he or she is free to remarry.
  • They define themselves close to nature, they mainly perform Nature worship. The Totos have two main gods whom they worship:
  1. Ishpa – He is supposed to live in the Bhutan hills, and causes sickness when displeased. The Totos offer him animal sacrifices and Eu.
  2. Cheima – She keeps the village and its people safe from troubles and sicknesses. She is also offered rice, fowls and Eu.
  • The Totos have priests, also offer their worship and sacrifices on their own. Ishpa is worshipped in the open outside the house and Cheima inside the house.
  • Anthropologists agree that the Toto culture and language is totally unique to the tribe, and is clearly distinguished from the neighbouring Rajbongshis, Koch, Mech or the Bhutanese Sharchop tribes.
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