Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji, Yezidi) in Armenia

Speakers

3,339

Type

Location

Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji, Yezidi) in Armenia

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji, Yezidi) in Armenia

Size

3,339

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Video

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Audio

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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

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

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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

3339
Source
census
Year
2011

Users within total population

3339.00000
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

3,339
Source
census, 2011

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

2,150
64
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2011

Age distribution of users

721
22
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2011

Age distribution of users

468
14
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2011

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

No education
Source

census, 2011

Early childhood education
Source

census, 2011

44
56
532
Primary education
Source

census, 2011

47
53
777
Lower secondary education
Source

census, 2011

52
48
1,170
Higher secondary education
Source

census, 2011

62
38
232
Tertiary education
Source

census, 2011

Occupational qualifications

56
Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2011

17
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2011

36
Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2011

1,415
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2011

43
Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2011

9
Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2011

36
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2011

74
Professionals
Source

census, 2011

44
Managers
Source

census, 2011

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

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

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

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

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

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

Completion