India, Feb. 14 -- Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Saturday advocated the development of an indigenous script for Kokborok, the language spoken by tribal communities in Tripura.

At the same time, he clarified that the state government has not issued any order to ban the Roman script.Speaking to reporters, Saha said he was not opposed to English. However, he questioned the use of a foreign script for an indigenous language. "I am not against English. Read English. But for an indigenous language, why should the Roman script be used that is the question," he said.

The chief minister said Kokborok was earlier written in the Bengali script. He added that some had also suggested Devanagari or other Indian-origin scripts, but those propos...