Paniya in India

Speakers

22,808

Type

Location

Paniya in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Paniya in India

Size

22,808

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

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Pattola-paniya pre-school primer. 1996. Kurundan. Central Institute of Indian languages, Mysore

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some videos about language and culture are available in Paniya language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ojtiyLoZX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAkORGaH7a8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDp0rnNKPZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEB9y7yqj9o

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Audio

Comments
Some audio recordings are available in Paniya
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/4077.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/4077.zip

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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
S. Jean Lawrence. 1979. Descriptive study of Paniya. (Doctoral dissertation, Annamalainagar: Annamalai University).

Arul, M. Vijay. 2018. The Endangered Tribal Language Paniya: An Ethnolinguistic Study. (Doctoral dissertation, Annamalai University; xii+185pp.)

Syam, S. K. and S. Bindu and Mini, P. V. and Pradeep, Kumar K. S. 2018. Paniya Language Primer. Kerala Institute for Research Training & Development studies. 82+134+166pp.

Kumar, Satinder. 2000. The Paniyan. In Kumar, Satinder (ed.), Encyclopaedia of South-Asian tribes, 2898-2901. New Delhi: Anmol Publications.

Mündel, Hans-Henning, 2007 My life among the Paniyas of the Nilgiri Hills. Lethbridge, Alta. : Carpe Diem Mündel Publishing.

P. Somasekharan Nayar, Paniyabhasha, NBS Kottayam, December 1997.

Sandhya Rashmi, Paniyas of Wayanad, Modern Books, Sulthan Bathery, 2008.

Dr. P.G Pathmini, Paniyabhasha Nigandu, State Institute of Languages Kerala, Thirvananthapuram, June 2011.

http://lsi.gov.in:8081/jspui/bitstream/123456789/5640/1/52003_1961_PAN.pdf

Somasekharan Nair,P. 1985 'Personal promouns in Paniya and Adiya speech forms of
Kerala. Somesocio- Linguistics observation', IJDL, Vol. xx.No.2

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
Paniya is written with Malayalam 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
Kerala

Size / Number of users

Number of users

22808
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

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=Pania

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
District/Village

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

Completion