Rabha in India

Speakers

139,986

Type

Location

Rabha in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Rabha in India

Size

139,986

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
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Das, Amrita, 2018. Prantiya Uttarbanger Rabha bhashar bhashatattvik bishleshan. Jadavpur University

P. N. Dutta Baruah ; Upen Chandra Rabha. 1997, Rabha Nursery Rhymes. Central Institute of Indian Languages

Biswanath Rabha Tara, 2019. RABHA LOKBADYA SRISTI ARU ABHIJNAN. BAJU ASSOCIATES 978-81-938867-9-3.

Rev Dr M Mani Chacko, 2022. RABHA ASSAMESE BIBLE PL. The Bible Society of India. 978-93-93511-16-4.

Rabha, Rajen 1973. Rabha Janajati Ed. 2nd.
By: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.451564

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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-rabha-language
https://archive.org/details/podcast_khushkhbrii-jiivn-ke-shbd-in_rabha-good-newsmp3_1000426447114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o5FhILsmZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv_GbcuWJDQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ9DYpgyGF4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOb9Lg3nkkc

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/podcast_khushkhbrii-jiivn-ke-shbd-in_rabha-good-newsmp3_1000426447114

Radio: Rabha folk songs and modern songs are being broadcasted by AIR , Guwahati since 1957. AIR , Tura and Dibrugarh are also broadcasting Rabha folk songs from the last few years.

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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
U. V. Joseph. 2007. Rabha. (Languages of the Greater Himalayan Region, 1.) Leiden: Brill. xxx+858pp. (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 5/1).

Jaba Thakuria. 2004. Rabha language: A descriptive analysis. (Doctoral dissertation, Gauhati University; 239pp.)

U. V. Joseph. 1999. Correlative Linguistics: A case study of Rabha. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College).

Jose, Umbavu Varghese. 2000. Rabha-English dictionary khúrangnala. Guwahati: Don Bosco Publ. xxxiii+288pp. (Rabha and English).

Rabha, Rupak Kumar. 2013. Linguistic Ecology of Rabha. In Singh, Shailendra Kumar and Saralin A. Lyngdoh (eds.), Linguistic Ecology: Meghalaya, 205-228. Guwahati: EBH Publishers.

Sarmah, Priyankoo. 2009. Tone systems of Dimasa and Rabha: A phonetic and phonological study. (Doctoral dissertation, Gainesville: University of Florida; 158pp.)

Koch, Jibeshwar. 2014. Rabha dialects: A linguistic study. (Doctoral dissertation, Gauhati University; 129pp.)

Phukan Chandra Basumatary. 2004. A study in cultural and linguistic affinities of the Boros and the Rabhas of Assam. (Doctoral dissertation, Gauhati University; 234pp.)

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
Bengali Script is used to write in Rabha language

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
Assam, Meghalaya, Bengal

Size / Number of users

Number of users

139986
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
Source

Census of India

Year
2011

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=Rabha

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

Completion