Önge in India

Speakers

94

Type

Location

Önge in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Önge in India

Size

94

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
Andaman & Nicobar

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Main Bhi Bharat - Tribes of Andamans: Onge- Rajyasabha TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U82Z2xh3tbM

Onge- Aspire Anthropologist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omvu0L0fdfw

Andamanese Peoples & Languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RU8kuwDXA

Onge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omvu0L0fdfw

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Audio

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments
A Hand Book of Onge Language- Dasgupta and Sharma 1982
https://moodle.kubsu.ru/pluginfile.php/45110/mod_folder/content/0/Gasgupta%2C%20D.%3B%20Sharma%2C%20S.%20%281982%29%20A%20Hand%20Book%20of%20Onge%20Language.pdf?forcedownload=1

Is Great Andamanese genealogically and typologically distinct from Onge and Jarawa? Anvita Abbi
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222414027_Is_Great_Andamanese_genealogically_and_typologically_distinct_from_Onge_and_Jarawa

Wordlist
https://asjp.clld.org/languages/ONGE

Onge-Hindi Bilingual Primer
https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/book?id=Onge-Hindi%20Bilingual%20Primer%20|%20%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%99%E0%A5%87%20%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%80-1

Onge-Hindi-English Pictorial Glossary
https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/book?id=Onge-Hindi-English%20Pictorial%20Glossary

Works on Önge Language are lised here:
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/onge1236

B. K. Basu and B. N. Sarkar. 1994. Onge. In T. N. Pandit and B. N. Sarkar (eds.), Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 157-173. Madras: Anthropological Survey of India.

R. C. Nigam. 1962, 1962, 1963, 1963. The Onge of Little Andaman. Vanyajati X, X, XI, XI. 44-53, 84-92, 55-67, 147-156.

Shuklā, Janārdan. 1979. Oṇgī-Hindī Bolī. Port Blair: Andamān Ādim Janjāti Vikās Samiti. 46pp.

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Comments
The speakers are inhabitants of Little Andaman Island of India.

Size / Number of users

Number of users

94
Source
Census 2011 data referred in given link: https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/34006
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Comments
Spoken in Little Andaman Island (Union territory of India).

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use
Comments
Village

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Completion