The UNESCO report under the 'List of endangered languages as in the online version of the World Atlas of endangered language (vis-a-vis census 2009) said that languages spoken by Aimol, Andro or Phayeng, Chairel or Chakpa and Tarao have become extinct.
However, the Tarao language, which is being spoken by over a thousand individuals, has ample time for preservation. Here we may deem UNESCO’s report as a signal which awakens the populace as well as the polity of the state.
Tarao Tribe, the population of which has gone down to a meager one thousand residing at just four villages of Manipur, has not been declared as Minority Community by the government.