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Toda Tribe Preserves Its Language in Nilgiris Under SPPEL

14 August 20251 min read
NATIONAL AFFAIRSToda Tribe PreservesIts Language inNilgiris Under SPPEL14 August 2025safalsetu.com

Why in the news

The Toda community in the Nilgiris took the lead in saving its own language, which is endangered, with support from a central scheme.

Key facts

  • Community: the Toda tribe of the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu.
  • Language: Toda, a proto-South Dravidian language with no native script.
  • Scheme: Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL).
  • Implementing body: Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), under the Ministry of Education.

Significance

  • Community-led action keeps a spoken-only language alive.
  • It shows how a central scheme can back local language protection.

Exam angle

  • Full form: SPPEL = Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages.
  • Nodal ministry: Education; executing institute: CIIL.
  • Related terms: Nilgiri Hills, proto-South Dravidian, script-less language.

Test yourself

1. The Toda language preservation effort in the Nilgiris is carried out under which scheme?

It falls under SPPEL.

2. Which institute implements SPPEL for endangered languages like Toda?

CIIL implements the scheme.

3. Toda is described in the notes as having which feature?

It is a proto-South Dravidian language with no native script.

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