Gamit in India

Speakers

139,118

Type

Location

Gamit in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Gamit in India

Size

139,118

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
Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Written material about language, community, culture and tradition of Gamit is available.
The Gamit Adivasis: A community with its own stories of origin – Gujarat
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=25003

Gamit aadiwasioma samajik parivartan vyara talukana sanderbhama
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/97876

Gamit jatino sanskrutik abhyas
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/195542

Gamit Samaja Na Lok Geetho Ek Abhayas
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/327426

Chaudari Dhodiya Gamit Ane Kunkana Bhasa_Ek Abhayas
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/324098

Ahirani lokgeet evam dakshin gujarat ke chaudhari gamit evam kukna janjati ke lokgeeton ka samajshastriy adhyayan
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/340657

Gamit Pictorial Glossary
https://lai.ciil.org/items/b05c95fc-24eb-4af2-b36a-f47ca6f15277



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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Videos related to culture, language, interviews and others are available.
https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-gamit-language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aonTkhgbPbA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWJc2yj6Fsw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_n2AHg8qiQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Pk-K3PmTs

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio material is available in Gamit language.
https://indiantribalheritage.org/?p=25003
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/gbl
http://lnipe.nta.ac.in/w/HBwvk65qOa8/jhino-jhino-dhol-vage-adivasi-gamit-song-%E0%AA%9D-%E0%AA%A3-%E0%AA%9D-%E0%AA%A3-%E0%AA%A2-%E0%AA%B2-%E0%AA%B5-%E0%AA%97-%E0%AA%86%E0%AA%A6-%E0%AA%B5-%E0%AA%B8-%E0%AA%97-%E0%AA%AE-%E0%AA%A4-%E0%AA%97-%E0%AA%A4/pages

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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
Folklore of Gamit Tribe A study of Socio Cultural Ethos as Ethos as Expressed in their songs and Tales.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/319210

https://trti.gujarat.gov.in/gamit
https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/16781/IN

RELEVANCE OF GAMIT SONGS AND GAMIT FOLKTALES
http://gyansampada.baou.edu.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/123456789/557/9/09_Chapter5.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
Gamit is written with Gujarati 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
Gujarat

Size / Number of users

Number of users

139118
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

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
Comments
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Gamti%2FGavit

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
District/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

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Completion