Koireng in India

Speakers

1,056

Type

Location

Koireng in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Koireng in India

Size

1,056

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

Digital
Yes
Comments
Some research papers etc.

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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 Koireng culture and tradition in Youtube.
1. Tribes Of Manipur (Koireng Tribe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Xo9kSh4RA
2. Koireng Devotional Song By Y Khupsoreng Koireng & Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBj29gmDDD0

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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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. http://www.e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.Ethnic_Races_Manipur.Ethnic_Races_Sanathong.KOIRENG
2. http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=leisure.Essays.Rongreisek_Yangsorang.Thangjing_in_folklore_of_Koireng_tribe_of_Manipur
3. Grammars, worlists are listed here: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/koir1240
4. Wordlist Koireng Compiled by André Müller: https://asjp.clld.org/languages/KOIRENG

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
Koireng is wirtten using Meitei or 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

1056
Source
Census of India
Year
2001
Comments

Census of India 2001 reference for number of speakers mentioned in this article: https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-school/of-native-tongues-vanished-in-…

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
http://www.e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.Ethnic_Races_Manipur.Ethnic_Races_Sanathong.KOIRENG
Comments
Koireng community are settled in the border foothills of Imphal valley and also found over a few villages in Senapti district and Imphal 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

Legal system

Completion