Deori in India

Speakers

32,376

Type

Location

Deori in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Deori in India

Size

32,376

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
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Research papers, Grammar, PhD thesis etc.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Deori Language: Discovering 'Bharat' in Folk Oral Tradition | Kilkari Auditorium | Kalpana Patowary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FuGdNGIsE
2. https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-deori-language
3. Deori Language||Deori Culture||Deori Culture and Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbbPMHReSxA
4. DEORI: Analysis on Assam's Deori Tribe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53fiLoPwW1A

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Song, words, numerals and sentences in Deori: https://lai.ciil.org/items/d4f272c6-53d5-4976-b7da-493e916c5c79
2. Deori Bihu song: https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Music-from-India/025M-RKDATX0055XX-0300V0
3. Deori Mosaia (Deori mourning song): https://folkways.si.edu/various-women-of-the-deori-community/deori-mosaia/track/smithsonian

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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. Grammars, descriptive works are listed here: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/deor1238
2. Nath, A. K. (2012). Sound change in Deori: A descriptive account. Journal of Universal Language, 13(2), 65-89.
3. Acharyya, P. (2020). Phonology of Deori: an ‘endangered’language (Doctoral dissertation).
4. Acharyya, P., & Mahanta, S. (2019). Language vitality assessment of Deori: An endangered language.

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
Deori is written with Bengali 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
Comments
Deori is spoken in the Northeastern States of Assam and Lohit and Changlang districts
of Arunachal Pradesh (Acharyya & Mahanta 2019).

Reference: Acharyya, P., & Mahanta, S. (2019). Language vitality assessment of Deori: An endangered language.

Size / Number of users

Number of users

32376
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Primary education
Lower secondary education
Higher secondary education
Tertiary education

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

Economic dimension

Functional use in administration

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use
Comments
State/District

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

Digital sphere

  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name
  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name

Legal system

Completion