Eravallan in India

Speakers

7,668

Type

Location

Eravallan in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Eravallan in India

Size

7,668

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
Southern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

Digital
Yes

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Video

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://lai.ciil.org/items/7bf35792-5c56-4360-a6f2-8ca6a857567e
https://lai.ciil.org/items/13d5b426-162a-4d12-9414-78d887b9378e
https://lai.ciil.org/items/b3ae5d2f-a533-49f4-b0d1-7f89adc09aac
https://lai.ciil.org/items/9ec7cc95-3bcf-4c6a-8193-41a427fccdee
https://lai.ciil.org/items/e6f19d2a-d3b6-4200-bdc1-5752f7d461b0
https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=3&query=ERAVALLAN%20language&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

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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
1. Vadivelu Gnanasundaram. 2012. Study of Eravalla: linguistic, sociolinguistic and folkloristic aspects with comparative Eravalla-Tamil vocabulary. Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu: Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University. 172pp.
2.Vadivelu Gnanasundaram. 2015. The status of the tribal mother tongue Eravalla: A dialect or an independent language?. Paper presented at the 43rd All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists held in Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, June 18-20, 2015. 17pp.
3. Gnanasundaram, V. 2013. Language Endangerment of Eravalla. In M. Ganesan (ed.), Language endangerment in South Asia. Annamalainagar: Centre of Advanced Study in Linguistics, Annamalai University.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/erav1242
https://lai.ciil.org/communities/349f3306-99f0-4af5-9e53- 1dbfa95c8cc4

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

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
Kerala

Size / Number of users

Number of users

7668
Source
SCHEDULED TRIBES BY MOTHER TONGUE (FOR EACH TRIBE SEPARATELY) - 2011 CENSUS
https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/
Year
2011

Users within total population

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

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://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/erav1242

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

Legal system

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion