Kaikadi in India

Speakers

25,870

Type

Location

Kaikadi in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Kaikadi in India

Size

25,870

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

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some videos are available in Youtube about Kaikadi tribe and their language.

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Audio

Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio recordings available in Kaikadi.

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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
Ther are some works on Kaikadi tribe and their culture as listed below:
1. Kannabiran, K., Mishra, S. K., Vinayan, S., & Jafar, K. (2017). Socio-Economic status and Educational Attainment and Challenges of denotified. Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes A study of (a) Western and Northern States final Report Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research Final Consolidated Report.
2. There is a movie titled 'Fandry' which is Kaikadi language word as discussed here: https://www.roundtableindia.co.in/the-semiotics-of-fandry/

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
Comments
They are primarily found in Maharashtra but also in some parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Size / Number of users

Number of users

25870
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

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
Comments
Kaikadi language speaking community live in more than one states in India.

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

Functional use in administration

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

Legal system

Completion