Darlong in India

Speakers

8,500

Type

Location

Darlong in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Darlong in India

Size

8,500

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 blogs are written in Darlong languages.

http://darlongbukpui.blogspot.com/2020/07/darlong-khua-intan-dan-thenka.html?m=1
http://darlongbukpui.blogspot.com/2017/10/darlong-mipui-changzat-nih-khua-2017.html?m=1
http://darlongbukpui.blogspot.com/2017/08/darlong-kristian-kal-chawi.html?m=1

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Videos are available in the form of songs and dance. Other cultural videos are also available in Darlong language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLxbH4Z-v8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Zf5jkdfT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NOhFC5e14U
youtube.com/watch?v=PHpYOmf4R1k

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Audio recordings related to language and culture available in Darlong language.

https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Darlong
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/779.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
Comments
Letthuama Darlong. 1996. The Darlongs of Tripura. Agartala: Directorate of Tribal Research Institute, Government of Tripura. 256pp. https://repository.tribal.gov.in/bitstream/123456789/75003/1/TR%26CI_1996_book.pdf

Benjamina Darlong (2014). Literature of North East India: Oral Narratives as Documents for the Study of Ritualization in the Darlong Community of Tripura. Rupkatha Journal on International studies in Humanities. Volume VI, Number 2, ISSN 0975-2935

Ramtanu Brahma (2018). On the Syllable Struture of Boro and Darlong. Language in India . Vol. 18:10 ISSN 1930-2940 http://www.languageinindia.com/oct2018/ramtanusyllableborodarlong1.pdf

http://darlongbukpui.blogspot.com/2018/03/saibual-village-of-darlong.html?m=1


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
Darlong is written with Latin 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
Tripura

Size / Number of users

Number of users

8500
Source
2017 annual report of the DHI (Darlong Hnam Inzom)
Year
2017

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

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