Mizo in India

Speakers

830,846

Type

Location

Mizo in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Mizo in India

Size

830,846

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No
Administrative units of the country
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Mizo uses Roman script. There are lots of folk literature, journals published. The first Mizo journal of a sort called Mizo Chanchin Laishuih was published in 1898. There are textbooks, stories, poems, etc in Mizo.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are teaching/learning materials of Mizo language, stories, short films about culture and language, dances, movies, Jesus films, etc.

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are religious songs, folksongs, etc.

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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
Few Works on Mizo:
1. Chhangte, Lalnunthangi. 1986. A Preliminary Grammar of the Mizo Language. Ann Arbor: UMI. (MA thesis, University of Texas at Arlington; xiii+271pp.)
2. Lalnunthangi Chhangte. 1993. Mizo Syntax. (Doctoral dissertation, Eugene: University of Oregon; 234pp.)
3. Subbarao, Karumuri V. and B. Lalitha Murthy. 1998. Aspects of Mizo Grammar. Delhi: University of Delhi, Ms. 274pp.
4. Chhangte, Lalnunthangi. 1989. The grammar of simple clauses in Mizo. In David Bradley (ed.), Papers in South-East Asian Linguistics 11: South-East Asian Syntax, 93-174. Canberra: Australian National University.
5. Kumar, Braj Bihari. 1974. Hindi-Mizo dictionary. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad (NBP). 119pp.
6. Kumar, Braj Bihari. 1974. Hindi-Mizo dictionary. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad (NBP). 119pp.
7. Laltluangliana Khiangte. 2002. Mizo Songs and folk tales. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi. 186pp.
8. Lalitha Murthy, B. and Subbarao, Κ. V. 2000. Lexical anaphors and pronouns in Mizo.

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
Uses Roman 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

830846
Source
census
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Age distribution of users

0
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of older generations (> 65)

Generational use

Educational attainment

No education
Early childhood education
Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

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

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion