Zeme Naga in India

Speakers

50,925

Type

Location

Zeme Naga in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Zeme Naga in India

Size

50,925

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
Adult Primer in Zeme by Lingadevaru Halemane; Pauning Haikam. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore https://archive.org/details/dli.language.0083/mode/2up

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Videos related to culture and language in Zeme language are available in the below given links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgBJMVFmK_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI3eWy5zq2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnJ_Ja2jmik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkO56LECK6I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4D4YhQ48tM

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Audio

Comments
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/592.zip

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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
Chanu, Sapam Sangita. 2017. A descriptive grammar of Zeme. (Doctoral dissertation, Silchar: Assam University; xxvii+326pp.) https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/293382

Muchahary, Francis. 2019. The Phonology and Morphology Of Zeme Naga. Department of Linguistics, Assam University. https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/356586

Dr Ranga Ranjan Das. 2022. THE ZEME NAGAS OF ASSAM ETHNOGRAPHY, CULTURE AND CUSTOMARY LAW. Law Research Institute, Eastern Region, Gauhati High Court, Guwahati 978-81-958162-2-4

Zeme Folktales by Kedutso Kapfo; Pauning Haikam. 2011. https://archive.org/details/dli.language.2223/page/n133/mode/2up

Anup Kumar Dey 2020. Migration and Settlement: A Case Study of Zeme Naga of Northeast India. NEW LITERARIA An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.


NEWME, MOSES. 2021. Livelihood Patterns And Adaptive Strategies A Study Of Zeme Naga Tribe In Tamenglong District Of Manipur. Department of Social Work. Assam 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
Zeme Naga 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
Assam, Manipur, Nagaland

Size / Number of users

Number of users

50925
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
Source

Census of India

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/MTProfile.php?mtname=Zemi

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

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Completion