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The most common form of human communication, comprising of structured and conventionally used words delivered through speech, writing or gesture are called language. A language is a device that establishes sound- meaning correlation, pairing meaning with signals to enable people to exchange ideas through observable sequences of sounds"[Ronald W. Langacker, language & its structure, 1967]. The sweetness of any language can be understood from the way it is spoken. The language of the Indigenous of Tripura theirs is known as Kokborok. The origin of the word Kokborok is derived from the combination of two words 'Kok' and 'Borok'. Literally, Kokborok means, "Language of the people or community" so the word Kokborok stands for humans language. Kokborok is spoken in the Indian state of Tripura. It belongs to the Tibetan-Burmese wide group of language and more precisely to the Bodo- Garo Subgroup. This Language has several dialects and sub- dialects. At the time various British Political Agents, District Officers, Sub- Division Officers were known as linguists - they called this language as Tipperh, Tipura, Tipra Language. So far, the term Kokborok is known first occured as 'Kok- boro' in 1897/98 in an early primer on the language, Daulat Ahmed 'Kokboroma. In 1900, Thakur Radhamohan Debbarma spelt 'Kokborok' in a published grammar of the Language.