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Jennu Kurumba in India

Speakers

36,076

Type

Spoken language

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Location

India

Jennu Kurumba in India

Country

India

Language status situation

Endangered/unsafe

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Language situation

Endangered

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Information available

1. Basics

Names

Jennu Kurumba in India

Size

36,076

2. Status

Status

Official country wide language
Official regional language
Official minority language
Recognised community language
Unrecognised community language

National language

Indigenous language

Yes

Administrative units of the country

Southern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fooop58BB1U&pp=ygUlSmVubnUga3VydW1iYSB0cmliZXMgY3VsdXR1cmFsIHZpZGVvcw%3D%3D
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Jennu+kurumba+tribes+culutural+videos

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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/6b18398a-ae8d-489a-86dc-bf15e61155c9
https://lai.ciil.org/items/fdab1d6f-e0c1-4499-bbc3-02a5a03151b1
https://lai.ciil.org/collections/119b25a6-dfec-4be3-863c-3ba8bc55395a
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/11531

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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. Upadhyaya, Uliyar Padmanabha. 1971. Coorg Kannada (Jenu Kuruba dialect). (Linguistic Survey of India Series, 9.) Poona: Deccan College. 8+88pp.
2. Kamil V. Zvelebil. 1988. Jēnu Kuṟumba: Brief Report on a "Tribal" Language of the Nilgiri Area. Journal of the American Oriental Society 108. 297-301.
3. Kamil V. Zvelebil. 1980. Jēnu Kurumba: First Report on a Tribal Language of the Nilgiri Area. In Bruce R. Caron and Meredith A. B. Hoffman and Marilyn Silva and Van Oosten, Jeanne and Alford, Danny Keith and Am Hunold, Karen and Monica Macaulay and Manley-Buser, John (eds.), Proceedings of the sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 111-120. Berkeley: University of California.
4. Upadhyaya, Uliyar Padmanabha. 1968. The Jenu Kuruba Dialect of Kannada. Linguistic Survey Bulletin 4. 7-12.
5. Shanthi, {}. 1996. Women in a tribal society: A sociological study of Jenu Kurubas. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Mysore; 331pp.)
6. Ulrich Demmer. 1997. The field of gathering among the Jēnu Kuṟumba. In Paul Hockings (ed.), Blue mountains revisited: cultural studies on the Nilgiri Hills, 164-191. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/jenn1240
7. enwiki-Jennu_Kurumba_language-20200726.pdf by
Wikipedia, 2020.
https://archive.org/details/enwiki-Jennu_Kurumba_language-20200726.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

Jennu Kurumba defaulting to Tamil 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

Karnataka

Size / Number of users

Number of users

36076

Source

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

Year

2011

Users within total population

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

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/jenn1240

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

Information services
Broadcasting
Video, film
Sound/music recording
Publishing activities
Language not used

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