Mizo, the most developed tribal language in North-East India, is widely taught in schools and colleges today but the Mizo people did not have a writing system until very recently.The British Christian Missionaries that arrived in Mizoram in the late 1800s and early 1900s and created the Mizo alphabet.After comparing Indian scripts like Hindi and Bengali with the English Roman script, they determined that the Roman script would be the most suitable for the people of Mizoram.The history of written Mizo is relatively brief, spanning less than 150 years. Thomas Herbert Lewin, the Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Hill Tracts, played a significant role in formalizing the Mizo script using the Roman script and the Hunterian system of orthography in 1874. The arrival of Arthington missionaries was a turning point in the development of the language. By 1894, the Mizo alphabet had been devised and numerous Bible books were translated into the Mizo language. Follow ABP Live for more such interesting facts about Mizoram and northeast India.