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James Herbert Lorrain

James Herbert Lorrain, or Pu Buanga, (6 February 1870 – 1 July 1944) was a British Baptist missionary in northeast India, including Mizoram, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh. He and Frederick William Savidge reduced the Mizo language (known as the Lushai language under the Colonial British name), to writing—devised an alphabet using Roman lettering and phonetic form of spelling based on Hunterian system translation; compiled grammar and dictionaries for missionary activities and clerical administration. He and F.W. Savidge were credited to the establishment of Christianity and education in Mizoram. They compiled the first Lushai grammar and dictionary. As a gifted lexicographer, Lorrain single-handedly was responsible for the origin of written language and hymns in Mizo. More popularly known as "Pu Buanga Dictionary", Dictionary of the Lushai Language became the foundation of Mizo language and literature.

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• ▸Edgar Wilson Nye
• ▸Drabella
• ▸Early American publishers and printers

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