Tibetan in India

Speakers

182,685

Type

Location

Tibetan in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Tibetan in India

Size

182,685

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 Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Tibetan Language correspondence course https://learntibetian.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/tibetan-language-correspondence-course-sara-harding-jeremy-morrelli.pdf

Tibetan poetry text (svyan-nag) Bod mkhas pai synan hdrel les sarga gnyis pa dpar brjod Dan
bches pa) Council for Tibetan Education. Dharamsala

Angrup Lahuli, ‘Vimsati’ (Sambhota Upsarga Prakriya) Central Institute of Higher Tibetan
Studies. Sarnath 1985

Angrup Lahuli, 'Sambhota Vyakarana’, Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarnath,
1996.

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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=DpKjXYy3o30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGjY5RYxHaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqkFOK7OFos

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-540911196/popular-tracks

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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
Nawang Phuntsog (2018) Tibetan Language at Home in the Diaspora: The Mother Tongue–Based Bilingual Schooling of Tibetans in India, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 12:2, 82-94, DOI: 10.1080/15595692.2017.1398141

TIBETAN STUDIES IN MODERN INDIA https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/id/636789/bot_1983_01_02.pdf/;jsessionid=C76C1C34D90F0D6E2729D2318C1A69CF

New Light Multilingual Dictionary (English-Sherpa-Bhutia-Nepali-Tibetan) https://lai.ciil.org/items/1bcf8ddf-9102-4313-9bb6-ecee8eb97dad

Losang Thonden, (1993)Modern Tibetan Language Vol.I &II, Library of Tibetan Works and
Archives, Dharamsala.

Tashi, (1990)A Basic Grammar of Modern Spoken Tibetan,Library of Tibetan Works and
Archives, Dharamsala.

Melvyn Goldstein With Gclek Rinpoche and Lobsang Phuntshog,(1993)Essentials of Modern
LiteraryTibetan, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd.,India.

Pema Chhinjor, ‘The New Plan Tibetan Grammar and Translation’, Paljor Publications, New
Delhi, 1998.

https://omniglot.com/writing/tibetan.htm

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
Tibetan script is used in writing

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
Comments
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Tibetan

Size / Number of users

Number of users

182685
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=Tibetan

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
Comments
State/District

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
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Legal system

Completion