Tangam in India

Speakers

7

Type

Location

Tangam in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tangam in India

Size

7

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=GP0pdvW33QM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppktEfRIYb8&pp=ygUfIFRhbmdhbSB0cmliZXMgY3VsdXR1cmFsIHZpZGVvcw%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Tangam+tribes+culutural+videos
http://www.jesusfilm.org/
http://www.jesusfilm.org/
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/20070

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/18380
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/6680
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/6341
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/6681
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/2410
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/2251
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/20070

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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
Mark W. Post. 2017. The Tangam Language: Grammar, Dictionary and Texts. Leiden: Brill. xx+302pp.
Badu, Tapoli. 2004. Tangam language guide. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. 64pp.
Mark W. Post and D. Líípír and Yankee Modi. 2014. A Tangam Dictionary, with English and Minyong Translations. Gauhati, Assam, India: Bhabani Press.
Bhattacharjee, Tarun Kumar. 1975. The Tangams. Shillong: Research Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. 96pp.
Tapuli Badu. 1996. A brief note on the Tangam language. Resarun: journal of the Research Department, Government of Arunachal Pradesh XXII. 23-30.
Kaling Dabi and Kombong Darang and Rejhoney Borang and Chera Devi and Rumi Deuri. 2020. The Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh. Rono Hills, Arunachal Pradesh: Centre for Endangered Languages (CFEL), Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies (AITS), Rajiv Gandhi University.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tang1377
Tabing, Tunung, 2022. Arunachal Pradesh ki adi janjati ki upjanjati tangam ka samaj bhasik adhayan, (Ph.D) Department of Hindi, Rajiv Gandhi Universit.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=TANGAM+language&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=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
Arunachal Pradesh

Size / Number of users

Number of users

7
Source
SCHEDULED TRIBES BY MOTHER TONGUE (FOR EACH TRIBE SEPARATELY) - 2011 CENSUS.
Year
2011

Users within total population

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://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tang1377

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

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
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

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion