Bhunjia in India

Speakers

12,350

Type

Location

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Bhunjia in India

Size

12,350

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
Eastern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

Digital
Yes

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Songs, language movie trailer, folk dance etc. are available in Bhunjia language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwUJEji52bc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7NdFRvfHQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0IjYzpsDGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miewi5O7EGY

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Bhunjia
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/8073.zip

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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
Patnaik, Nityananda and Prasanta Kumar Mohanty and Trilochan Sahoo. 1984. Life in Sonabera Plateau: Anthropology of the Bhunjias of Kalahandi, Orissa. Bhubaneswar: Tribal and Harijan Research-cum-Training Institute. 181pp.

Dubey, K. C. 1963. A study of Bhunjia settlement. Vanyajati XI. 132-135.

Dr Birendra Suna. 2018. Chuktia Bhunjia. Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Deemed to be University. 978-93-88436-01-4.

Sahoo Jagannath. 2022. Bhunjia Indigenous Knowledge System A Study in Persistence and ChangeDash https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/401553

Chuktia Bhunjia, Ministry of tribal Affairs. https://tribal.nic.in/repository/ViewDoc.aspx?RepositoryNo=TRI28-08-2017115101&file=Docs/TRI28-08-2017115101.pdf

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
Bhunjia is written with Devanagari 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
Chattisgarh

Size / Number of users

Number of users

12350
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

64
38
More than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Actual percentage
51

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://cgtrti.gov.in/bhunjia#:~:text=The%20literacy%20rate%20of%20Bhunjias,female%20literacy%20is%2038.04%20percent.&text=The%20Bhunjias%2C%20are%20a%20primitive%20tribe%20of%20India.

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

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