Dhimal in India

Speakers

100 to 999

Type

Location

Dhimal in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Dhimal in India

Size

100 to 999

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

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Dhimal, Buddhi. 1991-1992. Dhimāl bhāṡā - Jñāna Ainā. Sunsari: Dhimāl Bhāṡā Sāhitya Sevā Prakāṡan. (Dated VS 2048).

Lengbang, Nagendra and Toba, Sueyoshi. 1996. dhemalaai jaatiko aatungsaa cinaarii (dhimaal bhaaSHaamaa) = dhimaal jaatiko saakshipta cinaarii. Sayapatri 2(2-3): 68-81.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
videos about culture and language available in Dhimal language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6s5gotMF0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8OtPO1Tbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kghJ0vhXyJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbaqviDsf54

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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=Dhimal

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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
King, John Timothy. 2009. A Grammar of Dhimal. Leiden: Brill. 633pp.

Khatiwada, Karnakhar. 2016. Dhimal Morphosyntax: A Functional-Typological Approach. (Doctoral dissertation, Kathmandu: Tribhuvan University; xix+477pp.)

Karnakhar Khatiwada. 2017. A Reference Grammar of Dhimal. (Languages of the World/Materials, 508.) München: LINCOM. 314pp.

Karnakhar Khatiwada. 1999. Dhimal Verb Morphology. (MA thesis, Kirtipur: Tribhuvan University; 115pp.)

Toba, Sueyoshi and Dhimal, Nagendra. 1999. Dhimal-English, English-Dhimal glossary. Kathmandu: Nepali National Languages Preservation Institute. 78pp. (Includes bibliographical references (p. )).
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/dhim1246

Kocch, Bodo And Dhimal Tribes by Hodgson, B. H. https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.1540

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
Dhimal 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
West Bengal

Size / Number of users

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