Kachchi in India

Speakers

1,030,602

Type

Location

Kachchi in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Kachchi in India

Size

1,030,602

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
Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Written material about culture, traditions, folktales and other books are available in Kachchi language.

Kachchhi Lok Kathao - J.b.lippincott Company New York
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.256931

Kachchhi Deshi Hisab
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.420644

Kachchhi Mukha Ganit Bhag-2
https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.422176

Satvenni Ji Vel Bhaag Bijo - Saiyed Nurmohammad Shah Bin Imam Shah
https://archive.org/details/UndatedSatvenniJiVelBhaagBijo322D

Satveni Ni Vel Part 2- Saiyed Nurmohammad Shah Bin Imam Shah
https://archive.org/details/UndatedSatveniNiVelPart2321D

Kutchi Kadva Patidar Samaj Mumbai Constitution
https://archive.org/details/BK734

Kunjaljikunkar: Kachchhi Magazine
https://archive.org/details/kunjaljikunkar-mgzz/Kunjaljikunkar%20November/

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Learn Kutchi with subtitles - Story for Children "BookBox.com"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ3fbB0PzE0

Kutchi language, Reunion (Milan મિલન) - Kutchi Language Film कच्छी - New HD Full Movie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqmlbvB3rPA

Learn Kachchhi from kachchhi Madu.Samir Joshi. https://youtu.be/bnx2I2AwTY8

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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 Kuchchi.
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/kfr

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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
Some material in form of language description and glossary is available in Kachchi language.
http://www.kutchimaadu.com/general/kutchi-language/

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
Kacchi is written with Devanagari, Perso-Arabic and Gujarati 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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1030602
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
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