Kachari in India

Speakers

15,984

Type

Location

Kachari in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Kachari in India

Size

15,984

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
North East India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Numerals Of The Sonowal Kachari Language AKA Sonowal Kachari Raowani Gunti Laijhap by Sonowal Kachari Raomel
https://archive.org/details/numerals-of-the-sonowal-kachari-language/mode/2up


Bodo-kachari Sola Ed. 1st by Brahma, Mohini Mohan https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.452609

A Collection of Kachári Folk-Tales and Rhymes, by J. D. Anderson
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/53506/pg53506-images.html
https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5540/mode/2up

Sonowal Kachari Banshavali Sabha 2nd Adhibekhon( Dangori Bihia Gaon)
by Sadou Axom Sonowal Kachari Kalyan Sangha.
https://archive.org/details/sonowal-kachari-banshavali-sabha-2nd-adhibekhon-dangori-bihia-gaon

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some videos realted to culture, old traditions, songs and dance are available in Kachari language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzmBES-K05w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3YG75j2Hdc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPtgDFU23Bw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qM-Ow7GcNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug6KhXJ1_6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Virzk5SdCmg

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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 Kachari. in the form of songs and folktales.

https://archive.org/details/podcast_khushkhbrii-jiivn-ke-shbd-in_dimasakachari-words-life_1000426488929

Kachari Songs
https://gaana.com/album/sonowal-kachari

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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
Outline Grammar Of The Kachari (bara) Language by Endle, S.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24558/page/n9/mode/2up

The Kachárisby Endle, Sydney, 1840?-1907; Anderson, J. D. (James Drummond), 1852-1920 https://archive.org/details/kacharis00endliala/mode/2up

An Outline Grammar and Dictionary of the Kachari (Dimasa) Language (Based on Mani Charan Barman's Kachari Grammar) by Dundas, W. C. M. (William Charles Michael), 1873-1933
https://archive.org/details/an-outline-grammar-and-dictionary-of-the/mode/2up

ROLE OF SONOWAL KACHARI HAIDANG GEET AS FOLK MEDIA by Nilim Chetia
https://archive.org/details/httpsierj.injournalindex.phpierjarticleview1290

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
Kachari language is written with Assamese, 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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

15984
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
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Kachari

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

Completion