Gurung in India

Speakers

34,344

Type

Location

Gurung in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Gurung in India

Size

34,344

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
Sikkim
Comments
Gurung is one of the official languages in Sikkim

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
No
Comments
Some Textbooks (taught in schools) and other books written with Devanagari, Latin and Khema Scripts are available in Gurung language.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xwKTx16caU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0DQqkO5Mk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnGNHj0gaVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GueeL6v9r5k

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio recordings available in Gurung.
http://dspace.cus.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/1/6572/3/ggn_G33_001_SL_26062019.WAV
http://dspace.cus.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/1/6572/2/ggn_G33_001_SL_26062019.mp3
http://dspace.cus.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/6543

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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
Glover, Warren W. and Glover, Jessie R. and Gurung, Deu Bahadur. 1977. Gurung-Nepali-English dictionary. (Pacific Linguistics C, 51.) Canberra: Australian National University. https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/146595/1/PL-C51.pdf

Vandenhelsken, Melanie. (2016). The making of Gurung cultural identifications in Sikkim. NEPALI DIASPORA IN A GLOBALISED ERA (pp.153-169). Routledge (Eds) Tanka B. Subba and A.C. Sinha

R. Nakkeerar (2013). A sketch of phonology and grammar of Gurung. "Scientific study of Gurung" under the national project of Linguistic Study of India.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21145-gurung-khema.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
Gurung written with Khema, Devanagari and Latin 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
Administrative units of the country
Sikkim

Size / Number of users

Number of users

34344
Source
Sikkim State Economic Census (2006)
Year
2006

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
Source
http://dspace.cus.ac.in/jspui/handle/1/6543

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
Comments
Gurung is taught in schools in Sikkim

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
  • 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

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion