Malasar in India

Speakers

9,708

Type

Location

Malasar in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Malasar in India

Size

9,708

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
Southern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opPTg_6yua8&pp=ygUfTUFMQVNBUiB0cmliZXMgY3VsdXR1cmFsIHZpZGVvcw%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4rWQB-Lyps&pp=ygUfTUFMQVNBUiB0cmliZXMgY3VsdXR1cmFsIHZpZGVvcw%3D%3D
https://archive.org/search?query=MALASAR+&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MALASAR+tribes+culutural+videos

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://lai.ciil.org/items/4325c6f0-ad59-482e-9fe8-5246cb34975f
https://lai.ciil.org/items/91975138-2b5b-4243-a395-97b1c0f97a7b
https://lai.ciil.org/items/b7321e62-d0db-4c1a-9de6-a28ecb0941f4
https://lai.ciil.org/items/e4bfc2c0-c315-4f05-8fdc-bf18d27e5754
https://lai.ciil.org/items/8dfbfdcf-97ef-4bd7-a9fd-03e1ace401c9
https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=MALASAR%20&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

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Documentation: descriptions

Comments
1. Venkataraman, S. R. 1957. Malasars of the Anaimalai Hills in the Coimbatore District. Vanyajati V. 139-141.
2. Luiz, A. A. D. 1962. Tribes of Kerala. New Delhi: Bharatiya Adimjati Sevak Sangh. 310pp.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mala1458
https://archive.org/search?query=MALASAR+&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22
https://www.sppel.org/malasardoc.aspx
3. Gouthami V, 2023. Ethnoecology of kadar and malasar ethnic community endemic to anamalais of western ghats, (Ph.D thesis) Department of Botany, University of Calicut.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=Malasar&go=
https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=MALASAR%20&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

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
Administrative units of the country
Tamilnadu

Size / Number of users

Number of users

9708
Source
SCHEDULED TRIBES BY MOTHER TONGUE (FOR EACH TRIBE LOOKING WITH STATE LEVEL) - 2011 CENSUS
Year
2011

Users within total population

Age distribution of users

Educational attainment

Language competence

Literacy of users

Less than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Source

https://repository.tribal.gov.in/bitstream/123456789/75207/1/ST_Census…

Year
2011

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.ethnologue.com/language/ymr/

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

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

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion