Zakhring in India

Speakers

376

Type

Location

Zakhring in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Zakhring in India

Size

376

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

Digital
No

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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/64347
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/64348
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/18663.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/18663.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp4/18663.zip
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/zkr

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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
1. There are very few works on Zakhring or Meyor language which are listed here:
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/zakh1243
2. Chakravorty, M. K. (2015). The Zakhring Community of Arunachal Pradesh: Notes on a Lost Tribe. Space and Culture, India, 3(2), 94-102.
3. Blench, R. (2015). The classification of Meyor (Zakhring).
4. Blench, R. (2012). Sorting out Monpa: The Relationships of the Bodic Languages of Arunachal Pradesh.
5. Aiyadurai, A. (2011). The Meyor: A least studied frontier tribe of Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. The Eastern Anthropologist, 64(4), 459-469.
6. There is a documentary about the last of the Zakhring tribe of Arunachal Pradesh: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/expedition-arunachal-pradesh#/

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

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

376
Source
Blench, R. (2012). Sorting out Monpa: The Relationships of the Bodic Languages of Arunachal Pradesh.

Blench (2012) mentions that in 2001 there were some 376 speakers scattered in fifteen
villages. (See Pg No:8)
Year
2001

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

Educational attainment

Language competence

Literacy of users

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
Landi, Victor. 2005. The Meyors and their language. Itanagar: Directorate of Research, Government of Arunachal Pradesh. 182pp.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Landi%2C+Victor.+2005.+ The+Meyors+and+their+language.+Itanagar%3A+&btnG=

Economic 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

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