Purum in India

Speakers

516

Type

Location

Purum in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Purum in India

Size

516

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

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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=borU3nMp1DA&pp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFPSah3_ymY&pp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0lWhtY1Hlc&pp
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query= PURUM+teibe+culutural+videos

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/PurumNihilFundamentaliter-St-Demo2008
https://archive.org/details/PurumLlemay
https://archive.org/search?query=PURUM&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22
https://lai.ciil.org/items/fb343117-ba53-46ab-b1f9-dc24dd2788fa
https://lai.ciil.org/items/f59facb4-32b4-41ce-bcee-fa8558e30d44
https://lai.ciil.org/items/7bfe0a8a-e9d9-46a7-a039-a680683c3a41
https://lai.ciil.org/handle/1/6630
https://lai.ciil.org/items/18adb2af-6d1f-4f90-b516-b114f48fafb3
https://lai.ciil.org/items/9c3bd19d 4ec2-4cb4-9168- 69f384f2b5ae
https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=PURUM&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

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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
Singh, Nameirakpam Gopendro. 2003. A descriptive grammar of Purum. (Doctoral dissertation, Canchipur: Manipur University; 246pp.)
Das, Tarakchandra. 1945. The Purums: an old Kuki tribe of Manipur. Calcutta: University of Calcutta. xvi+336pp.
Needham, R. 1958. A Structural Analysis of Purum Society. Amer. Anth. 60. 75-101.
Das, T. C. 1945. The Purums.

enwiki-Purum_language-20200725.pdf by Wikipedia (2020)
https://archive.org/search?query=PURUM&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

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
Purum written with Latin script

https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?&item_ id=search

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
Manipur

Size / Number of users

Number of users

516
Source
SCHEDULED TRIBES BY MOTHER TONGUE (FOR EACH TRIBE SEPARATELY) - 2011 census of Manipur state
Year
2011

Users within total population

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

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

https://www.ethnologue.com/language/pub/

Year
2001

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.ethnologue.com/language/pub/

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