Thado Chin in India

Speakers

229,340

Type

Location

Thado Chin in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Thado Chin in India

Size

229,340

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

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Chin Thado (1983) Genesis Portion https://archive.org/details/TCZ1983_DBS_HS/mode/2up

The Holy Bible. https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_tcz_gen-1

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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=dRNTfH7O0OM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNOphtXtFlY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOck3JnXBKw

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Thadou

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Documentation: descriptions

Comments
Marykim Haokip. 2014. Grammar of Thadou-Kuki: A Descriptive Study. (Doctoral dissertation, New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University; 322pp.)

Krishnan, Shree. 1980. Thadou: a grammatical sketch. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India. x+121pp. (Bibliography: p. 120-121 Thādo language–Grammar).

Shree Krishan. 1980. Thadou: Grammatical Sketch. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India. x+121pp.

Hodson, Thomas Callan. 1905. Thādo Grammar. Shillong: Eastern Bengal and Assam Secretariat Printing Office. vi+104pp.

Pauthang Haokip. 2007. The phonology of Thadou: A typological and generative study. (Doctoral dissertation, Shillong: North-Eastern Hill University; 180pp.)

Grierson, George A. 1995. Thado. In Grierson, George A. (ed.), Languages of North-Eastern India. A survey. Vol. 2, 555-567.

https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Thadou

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
Thado Chin is written with latin 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
Manipur

Size / Number of users

Number of users

229340
Source
Census of India
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Thado
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Others+Thado
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language

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=Thado

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