Halam in India

Speakers

38,915

Type

Location

Halam in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Halam in India

Size

38,915

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
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some textbooks are available in Halam language
https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Halam

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some videos realted to Halam tribe are available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fC1MhC_kGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_gn7ECrhbY

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio recordings available.
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/32471

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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
Morphological typology of Tibeto-Burman languages with special reference to Mara, Biate, Monsang and Halam.
http://library.nehu.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=159204

The Halams of Tripura a tribe in transition
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/10603/154945

https://trci.tripura.gov.in/halam

Kharlukhi, C. and S. A. Lyngdoh. 2014. Ergative-Absolutive in Halam and Biate. In War, J. and S. K. Singh and Saralin A. Lyngdoh and B. Khyriem (eds.), Tibeto-Burman Linguistics of North-East India, 223-229. Guwahati: EBH Publishers.

Kharlukhi, C. 2014. Case system in Mara, Biate and Halam-Ranglong Tibeto-Burman languages. In War, J. and S. K. Singh and S. A. Lyngdoh and B. Khyriem (eds.), Tibeto-Burman Linguistics of North-East India, 23-32. Guwahati: EBH Publishers.

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

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
Tripura

Size / Number of users

Number of users

38915
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

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
State/District

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

Completion