Arabic in India

Speakers

54,947

Type

Location

Arabic in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Arabic in India

Size

54,947

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
All India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Lessons in Arabic

https://cbsearabicnotes.wordpress.com/

Qutbuddin, Tahera. “Arabic in India: A Survey and Classification of Its Uses, Compared with Persian.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 127, no. 3, 2007, pp. 315–38. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20297278. Accessed 17 Apr. 2023.

Rahman, Mukhlesur. "Arabic in India: Past, Present & Future." Language in India, Vol. 14:12 December 2014. https://www.academia.edu/10204866/Arabic_in_India_Past_Present_and_Future

Yousuf, Abu. "STUDIES OF ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN INDIA, PAST AND PRESENT". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research, vol. 10, no. 9(3), September: 2021. DOI: http://ijmer.in.doi./2021/10.09.57

Smith, David, and Louis Karpinski. The Hindu-Arabic Numerals . Ginn and Company, 1911. https://www.rarebooksocietyofindia.org/book_archive/196174216674_10153000569076675.pdf

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Arabic course for beginners, speaking course, greetings in Arabic, vocabulary for beginners, culture etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKEOpXT2XA&list=PL1XeQe3kxfl9ERjoxFCK-VmwrQvy2y3Nw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w1zfcuH6ss&list=PLsF39TzFrYcUlU0D1eyci7B7-sf4FjBOC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=510ZfY37B7Q&pp=ygUbYXJhYiBjb21tdW5pdHkgaW4gaHlkZXJhYmFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hre2azHswLo&pp=ygUbYXJhYiBjb21tdW5pdHkgaW4gaHlkZXJhYmFk

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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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
Abdul Hamid Nomani. Kafak. Malegaon, 1967, 130 p.

Abdul Qahir Jurjani. Sharah meata aroil. Lucknow,Nawal Kishore, 1875, 50 p.

Abul Hasan Ali Hamiduddin. gariri. Kanpur, Nezami, press, 1889, 34 p.

Fazlur Rahman, Al Tashayyud fi mabani Kalemati Tauhid. Calcutta, Thamari press, 1853, 304 p.

Abu Abdullah, Mohammad Bin Ismail. Kitab-o~Khulqil'Ibad war Radde 'Alal jahmia wa ashabit Tatil. Delhi, Ansari press, 1964, 159 p.

More materials can be found in the given link:

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=arbi&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc

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
Comments
Arabic script

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
Bihar

Size / Number of users

Number of users

54947
Source
Census of India
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
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Arabic%2FArbi

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

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

  • Language not used
  • Translations
  • Healthcare information
  • Nursing care (incl. elderly)
  • Doctor-patient communication
  • Generally used

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

Legal system

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion