Kokborok is spoken across Tripura and beyond, but much of it lives only in memory — passed between generations without a structured written record, a shared spelling system, or a place where the language can be searched, studied, and built upon. Words get lost between generations. Regional variation goes undocumented. Learners have no single, reliable place to start.
The Yapiri Project addresses this directly: a dictionary that grows and gets verified over time, a grammar that documents how the language actually works, a sentence corpus that shows Kokborok in real use, and the Yapiri script — a writing system built specifically for Kokborok's sounds, not borrowed from another language.
This is meant to serve the Tiprasa community in two directions at once. For today's speakers, teachers, and writers, it's a growing reference — something to check a word against, cite in teaching material, or build lessons around. For the next generation, it's meant to be the foundation younger speakers and learners find already built: a dictionary that already has structure, a script that already works on modern devices, and a body of real sentences to learn from instead of starting from nothing.
The project depends on the community it serves. Speakers can contribute words, corrections, regional variants, and example sentences. Teachers and writers can help verify entries and flag what's missing. Researchers can use the structured data for study. None of this replaces the community's own knowledge — it exists to organise, preserve, and make that knowledge usable for as long as the language is spoken.
