Tangsa Script

Government of Arunachal Pradesh invited the proposal for Development of local Tribal Script vide their Public Notice NO.EDD/A/179/2018-19 dated 5th August 2019. Local NGO Tribal Welfare & Development Society with its Head Office at Chatim Lodge Changlang applied to promote and Develop Lakhm’s Script in Tangsa inhabited areas of Changlang District Arunachal Pradesh. ​ The Tangsa alphabet was created in 1990 by Mr Lakhum Mossang from Namphai Nong in Arunachal Pradesh in northern India to write the Tangsa language. Tangsa is a member of the Brahmaputran branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in the Sagaing Region and Kachin State in northern Myanmar / Burma, and in the northern Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.