Toto language

• A dictionary for Toto language will be released soon.
• In the trilingual dictionary, Toto Shabda Sangraha, Toto words will be translated into Bengali and English, and will be composed in the Bengali script.
• The dictionary has been compiled by Bhakta Toto, a bank employee-cum-poet.

ABOUT TOTO LANGUAGE

• It is a language spoken by barely 1,600 people living in parts of West Bengal bordering Bhutan.
• Toto is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the tribal Toto people and is written in the Bengali script.
• Even though prominent community member Dhaniram Toto developed a script as recently as in 2015, most people either write it in Bengali script or write in Bengali language.
  • Dhaniram Toto, who is like a cultural father of the Totos, got a Padma Shri in 2023.