The police and paramilitary forces deployed in Naxal-hit Bastar division often face problems in communication due to words used in local dialect. The State Government has instructed the Tribal Welfare Department to identify half-a-dozen local dialects and prepare a dictionary of these languages, sources said.
The dictionary will be provided to the security personnel deployed in these Naxal-hit districts to facilitate them in understanding the local language.About 1500 words of each language will be included in the dictionary and priority will be given to those words which are used by tribal people in general. The dictionary for ‘Halbi’ dialect has been prepared while dictionary for other dialects in yet to be completed.