Kok Borok in India

Speakers

1,011,294

Type

Location

Kok Borok in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Kok Borok in India

Size

1,011,294

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
Tripura

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Acharya, Nirmalendu 1999. Bhasha Shiksha Kok-borok. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.464964

https://archive.org/details/TRPOLD_DBS_HS

BWKWRANG (A Collection of Kokborok Poems) Kokborok Sahitya Sabha DIPRA KISHOR DEBBARMA Kokborok 978-81-961348-2-2 05/04/2023

SAMPARI (A Kokborok Novel) Kokborok Sahitya Sabha KIRAN DEBBARMA 978-81-961348-4-6 05/04/2023

Kokborok Kokrubam. Kwatal Tripura. Bani Prakashani 978-81-945577-7-7 26/12/2020 https://isbnnew.inflibnet.ac.in/Recently_Published_Books.aspx

https://lai.ciil.org/items/7050afaa-8c0c-4558-a387-463dd55c8f42

https://lai.ciil.org/items/1d73e375-dc5d-43c0-ad87-4542656556ca

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-kok-borok-language
https://archive.org/details/podcast_-_31tripurikok-borok-gospel_1000426008857
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMWQD1dpKr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfAI8R6a3Mo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClGJf7Q8TSw

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.languageshome.com/New/english-kokborok/
https://archive.org/details/podcast_words-life-good-news_kok-borok-the-prodigal-sonm_1000448309087
https://lai.ciil.org/items/e73f1669-7740-4127-875f-2396bab240f5
https://lai.ciil.org/items/f4621b9a-4291-4172-b837-aab3cf582b21

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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
Kokborok Grammar ( 1976) Pushpa Pai (Karapurkar) ; E. Annamalai https://lai.ciil.org/items/47ad2bde-b656-4f60-928a-529800e2cb79

Saha, Sudhanshu Bikash. 1988. Origin and structure of Kakbarak: a tribal language. 1st edn. Agartala: Rupali Pub. ii+188pp. (Text in English and Kakbarak (romanized)).

Debbarma, Binoy. 2002. Anglo-Kokborok-Bengali dictionary. Agartala, India: Kokborok Tei Hukumu Mission.

Jacquesson, François. 2003. Kokborok, a short analysis. In Hukumu, 10th anniversary volume, 109-122. Kokborok Tei Hukumu Mission.

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kokb1239

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
KOK BOROK is written with Bangla 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
Administrative units of the country
Tripura

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1011294
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

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language

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=Kokbarak

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
State/District

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
  • 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

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Completion