The Central institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, in collaboration with the borok kokrwbai bosong (formerly kokborok sahitya sabha), conducted the first workshop for the preparation of the Kokbrok-Hindi-English-Bengali Dictionary at Agartala form 16^th to 29^th October 2008. The workshop was supervised by Sri G. D. P. Sastry, Reader-cum-Research Officer, CIIL. The main resource persons were Sri Nanda Kumar Debbarma, Sri Naphurai Jamatia, Sri Mark Debbarma and Sri Syamal Roy Chowdhary.

Kokborok is, at least in official records, is taught in schools from Class 1 to Class 5 and a lot of literary work is being done in the language over the past 100 years or so. However, a good multilingual dictionary of Kokborok has so far not been compiled, though efforts were made by various scholars to compile Kokborok dictionaries of different kinds. The present effort by CIIL and BKB is fulfil this need.

In the present workshop, around 2000 entries have been compiled and the work is expected to be completed by March 2010.

The dictionary will have the Kokborok head word in modified Roman script has the main entry, with grammatical information and glosses in English, Hindi and Bengali. Where necessary, illustrations and usage are given. It is also expected that culture-specific entries will have some amount of description appended to the entry. The dictionary will also be made available in an electronic form eventually.

The entire dictionary will be prepared in a series of workshops to be conducted jointly by CIIL and BKB.