From Oral Tradition to Digital Future: Documenting the History and Current Vitality of the Mising Language through the First Mising Literary Conclave

This paper is based on the author's active participation in the First Mising Literary Conclave held on 8 November 2025 at KKHSOU, Guwahati, organised by TMPK Gauhati City Committee. The author, a member of the Mising community and representative of ADTU Mising Students’ Union (Assam Down Town University), co-presented a paper on the origin and evolution of the Mising language. The Mising language (Tani branch of Sino-Tibetan), spoken by over 500,000 people in Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley, is classified as endangered by UNESCO. Despite a relatively large speaker base, the language faces critical challenges such as weak intergenerational transmission, orthographic fragmentation, domain loss, and near-total absence in digital and computational spaces. This work documents the historical background and linguistic classification of Mising, analyses current sociolinguistic challenges, and presents the First Mising Literary Conclave as a significant community-driven initiative. It further explores opportunities for language revitalization through Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing technologies including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Large Language Models (LLMs), and digital corpus building. Submitted to: NortheastGenAI 2026 Workshop (Language, Culture & Heritage Track)