Yimchungru Naga in India

Speakers

83,259

Type

Location

Yimchungru Naga in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Yimchungru Naga in India

Size

83,259

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
H Keoshu, M B Qngr, Y Muremong Khiphuru. 1998. Yimchungru Azuru Khehum. Central Institute of Indian Languages. https://archive.org/details/dli.language.0918/mode/2up

Lingadevaru Halemane; Y Shahoto Kvz Yim. Adult Primer in Yimchungru. Central Institute of Indian languages, Mysore. https://archive.org/details/dli.language.0082/page/n3/mode/2up

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some culture and language related videos are available on below given links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fur1f9TDpWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTZ2QlQpStc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxxSHkrfASc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzsroXldzg

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio recordings are vailable on below given links
https://lai.ciil.org/items/81f75aa0-83eb-4478-aa59-a31cf573caa8
https://lai.ciil.org/items/0550b4fb-a162-42af-9483-9364419f84f1
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/4149.zip

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Documentation: descriptions

Comments
Kumar, Braj Bihari. 1973. Hindi Yimchungrü English dictionary. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad. 104pp.

Debojyoti Das. 2014. The Yimchunger Nagas: Local Histories and Changing Identity in Nagaland, Northeast India. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research

Modimita Barbora. 2020. Learner's Book of the Yimchunger Language. Center for Endangered languages, Tezpur University

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
Yimchungru Naga is written is 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
Nagaland

Size / Number of users

Number of users

83259
Source
Census of India
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

Literacy of users

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Actual percentage
74
Source

https://www.tezu.ernet.in/wmcfel/yum.php#:~:text=The%20literacy%20rate%….

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/

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
  • 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

Completion