Kharia in India

Speakers

297,614

Type

Location

Kharia in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Kharia in India

Size

297,614

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
Eastern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are some works on Kharia written using Devnagiri script. it is available in the following links:
1. https://lai.ciil.org/items/3eb0d3e6-b4e8-41bd-9dd7-e49ac19c8fa6
http://lisindia.ciil.org/Kharia/Kharia.html

2. https://lai.ciil.org/items/0b337218-9cfc-4b3e-ab26-9ad18d863269

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are some videos on language and culture in YouTube. Some links are given below:
1. Tribes of India | Khariya | A Developing Odia Tribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlOQGBQVwvE
2. Main Bhi Bharat - Tribes of Odisha: Hill Kharia tribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMlYzWU4TYU
3. Kharia language// खड़िया में शरीर के अंगों के नाम// Kharia Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSXkkk7KWSk

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are some audios available here: https://archive.org/search?query=Kharia+language&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22

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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. The Structure of Kharia: A Study in Linguistic Typology and Change
2. Kharia: A South Munda Language
3. A descriptive grammar of Kharia, A Grammar of Kharia: A South Munda Language
4. Kharia: Phonology, Grammar and Vocabulary
5. A grammar of Kharia, a South Munda language by John Peterson
6. Introduction to the Kharia language
7. Khaṛiyā vyākaran evam saṅkṣipt śabdakoś
8. Odia-Khadia Sabdakosh, Tea Districts Labour Association
9. Dictionary of the Kharia language: English-Kharia
10. Khaḍiā (byākaraṇa, racanābaḷī, śabdakośa)

11. Some works are also listed in Glottolog: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/khar1287
12. https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01715/page/n1/mode/2up
13. http://lisindia.ciil.org/Kharia/Kharia.html
14. http://library.ciil.org:8080/search/query?term_1=Kharia&theme=ciil
15. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/khar1287
16. https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=Kharia+language &rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc
17. http://library.ciil.org:8080/search/query?term_1=Kharia&theme=ciil

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
Kharia is written with Devanagari and Latin 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

297614
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

Educational attainment

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
Peterson, J. (2010). A grammar of Kharia: A South Munda language. Brill. (Refer Chapter 1 of the book -- INTRODUCTION: THE KHARIA LANGUAGE)
Comments
Peterson mentions that Kharia is a South Munda language spoken primarily in eastern central India in the southwestern areas of the state of Jharkhand (mainly in the districts Simdega and Gumla) and adjoining areas of the states of Chattisgarh (primarily in the districts Surguja, Jashpur and Raigarh) and Orissa (especially in Sundargarh District)

Economic dimension

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

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

Digital sphere

  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name
  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name
  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name

Legal system

Completion