Bhumij in India

Speakers

27,506

Type

Location

Bhumij in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Bhumij in India

Size

27,506

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
Jharkhand
Comments
Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Odia Bhumija Sabdakosha by Special Development Council, Govt. of Odisha (2018)
https://archive.org/details/bhumijsabda/mode/2up

Bhumija by Raghuveer Sharan Mitra Publication date 1961
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.378939/mode/2up

Lt. Shri Ram Avtar Abhilashi (2022) Bhumija. Abheesha Jain Lotus Publications 978-81-952417-5-0.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Documentary, learning material, dances, language and culture etc.

https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.ICCR-300-VHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u00wm4T26Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elk1Xs-w128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=div6AmhBIWY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgixUpPzYqM

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Songs, vocabulary and stories are available in Bhumij in audio format.

https://lai.ciil.org/items/47c81b22-bdc4-4ad0-9a7d-dbdb99501e6a
https://lai.ciil.org/items/b8edfc4c-1f65-44de-b58a-8ac3439877ed
https://lai.ciil.org/items/2b02acc8-45fe-4b28-b4b7-17862383dac1
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/3302

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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
Comments
Ramaswami, N. (1992), Bhumij Grammar. Central Institute of Indian languages, Mysuru
https://archive.org/details/dli.language.1596/mode/2up

C V Sivaramakrishna (2023), Hindi-English-Bhumij Trilingual Dictionary, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru. 978-93-94835-64-1

Vimal Bhumji (2023) Bhumij Grammar, Astitva Prakashan, 978-81-19064-06-9

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
Bhumij language is written in Ol Onal script, invented between 1981 and 1992 by Mahendra Nath Sardar. However, some speakers use the Bengali script, the Odia alphabet, or Devanagari to write the language.

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
Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha

Size / Number of users

Number of users

27506
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Age distribution of users

0

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=Bhumij

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
State/District

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