Wagdi in India

Speakers

3,393,991

Type

Location

Wagdi in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Wagdi in India

Size

3,393,991

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
Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
J.C. Sharma, 1996. Hindi-Wagdi-Hindi Student’s dictionary.
https://archive.org/details/dli.language.2235/mode/2up


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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some videos about culture of Wagdi are available

https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-wagdi-language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hmV-q4sTig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkrCxtdI4Ms

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/8063

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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
Research papers, books about culture are available in Wagdi language.

Garg Khushpal. 2019. Dialectical diversity and ethnic identity: A sociolinguistic study of the Wagadi language community of Southern Rajasthan. (Doctoral dissertation, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University; 225pp.)

Sibasis Mukherjee. 2011. Wagdi. In Rajasthan: Part-I, 406-463. India: Language Division Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner.

Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken. (2010). Wagdi language. Betascript Publishing 978-613-0-90652-8

Esther Norman, 2022. A Study of the Understanding of the “Christian Family” among the Minority Language Community, Banswara Wagdi of Rajasthan. Journal of Family Life Education, Vol. 1 Issue 1. pp 84-94.
https://www.uimfrti.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/05-Esther-UNDERSTANDING-OF-THE-CHRISTIAN-FAMILY-AMONG-THE-MINORITY.pdf



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
Wagdi is written with Devanagari 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
Rajasthan

Size / Number of users

Number of users

3393991
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=Wagdi

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
District/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

Completion