Tribal communities belong to endangered species of the world.

The tribals are euphemistically

called the fourth world or the firt nation. The Indian census 1991, lists 96 non scheduled languages.
Out of these, leaving languages such as Arabi, English and Tibetan, there are 90 tribal languages.
Many tribal languages are facing extinction due to the apathy of thier users and lack of support of
the governments. if a language is dies, thousands of years of experience, history, cultural diversity
and very identity of the people is lost forever (Vijayan Unni, M (Dr), Preface, Census of India,
1991, Series 1, India 1997). Joshua Fishman asks what is lost when a language is lost? He himself
answerd, the socio-cultural integration of the generations, the cohesiveness, naturalness and the
quiet creativity, the secure sense of identity, (Fishman Joshua, On the Limits of ethnolinguistic
democracy, In ToveSkutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson (eds), Linguistic Human Rights:
nDiscrimination, Berlin/ New York, Mouton de Gruyter, 1994).