Atong (India) in India

Speakers

4,600

Type

Location

Atong (India) in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Atong (India) in India

Size

4,600

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
North East India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some written material is available in Atong language

Seino van Breugel, Atongmorot Balgaba Golpho Second Edition https://www.academia.edu/487053/Atongmorot_Balgaba_Golpho


Breugel, Seino. 2009a. Atong morot balgaba golpho. Tura: Tura Book Room.

Seino Van Breugel: Atong Folklore

Seino van Breugel, 2019. Atong Texts: Glossed, Translated and Annotated Narratives in a Tibeto-Burman Language of Meghalaya, Northeast India, Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, Volume: 12

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some videos related to language and culture are available in Atong language.

https://archive.org/details/podcast_words-life-good-news_atong-good-newsmp3_1000448309060

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQiqSubpHMM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9da9tJ_JMsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNyCGDoXLE4

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Audio recording in Atong language are available on below given site.

https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Atong

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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
Seino Van Breugel: A Grammar Of Atong(Thesis for his ph.d)

Seino Van Breugel: Atong-English Dictionary, Published by Tura Book Room, Tura, 2009.

Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong spelling guide
https://www.academia.edu/15882391/Atong_Spelling_Guide



Rikrang D. Sangma: Mission of Rev. Rangku W. Momin for the Atong people and its importance to the churches of Krima No. III.


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
Atong is written with Roman 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
Meghalaya

Size / Number of users

Number of users

4600
Source
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/aot/

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

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

Legal system

Completion