Overview

• Nagaland University is partnering with the state Directorate of School Education to produce pedagogical grammars for all 18 state‑recognised Naga languages.
• The grammars are set for inclusion in school textbooks for Classes 5–12 alongside prose, poetry and translation under SCERT and NBSE oversight.
• The work will standardise parts of speech, tense and aspect, phrase and clause structures, tone, vocabulary and orthography to support consistent teaching.
• The effort is led by Dr. Mimi Kevichusa Ezung of the Department of Tenyidie, with technical workshops training SCNL language officers to translate and document categories.
• Only a few languages, including Tenyidie, Ao, Lotha and Sümi, currently extend beyond Class 8, and the project aims to create pathways to expand more languages to higher levels.