Gondi in India

Speakers

2,984,453

Type

Location

Gondi in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Gondi in India

Size

2,984,453

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
Central India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Sunher Singh Taram launched a literary magazine called Gondwana Darshan.
2. Ushakiran Atram's first anthology of poems in Gondi Motyarinin was published in 1993.
3. गुरु मित्र Guru Mitra : https://lai.ciil.org/items/3ffee43e-546c-417c-b5a0-eb58426c9d61

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Sakshi Special Story on Gondi Language Channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnPscqtHjE
2.To preserve tribal languages, a school in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, teaches Gondi language.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMr2Xf-ssLI
3. International Mother Language Day | Gondi Language | HMTV Special Focus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MB4T3sm-9I
4. Gondi language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et3L94Kemow

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Learn Gondi – Audio: https://www.languageshome.com/New/english-gondi/
2. Kachargarh pilgrimage of the Gond Adivasis: https://www.sahapedia.org/gondi-folk-song-rohidas-ghodham-raja-deo%E2%80%99s-assassination

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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. Gondi dictionary, stories, pocket book are listed here: https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/gondi/bhashakosha
2. Grammar sketch, comparative studies, dictionaries, phonology and morphological description are listed here; https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/gond1265

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
Gondi written with Masaram Gondi script, Devanagiri and other regional language scripts.

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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

2984453
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

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

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

Digital sphere

  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name
  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name

Legal system

Completion