Hajong in India

Speakers

71,792

Type

Location

Hajong in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Hajong in India

Size

71,792

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

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Hajong Janagosthi Aru Teolokar Bhasa Ek Bishlesanatmak Adhyan, Kamal Krishna Sarmah Dream Publication Dr Kanta Chakrabarty 978-81-955576-0-8, 2022.

ASAMAR HAJONG JANAGOSTHI : SAMAJ ARU SANSKRITI Assam sahitya Sabha Dr. RUNU GOGOI, 978-93-95177-07-8 , 2022

Hajong Loka-Sahityar Ruprekha, Purbayon Publication Dr. Sangeeta Rajkhowa 978-93-93881-75-5, 2022

Hajong loka-paribashya kala, Purbayon Publication, Dr. Sangeeta Rajkhowa 978-93-93881-70-0, 2022

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-hajong-language
https://archive.org/details/podcast_words-life-good-news_hajong-jesus-lord-saviour3_1000448309096
https://archive.org/details/podcast_words-life-good-news_hajong-jesus-teacher-healer_1000448309048
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRuGt5nyvEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4jqh_SK81o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTx7D9YcVV4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mg0T-e5CtY

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/podcast_words-life-good-news_14hajong-gospel-songsmp3_1000448309059

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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
Virginia Crowell Phillips. 2018. Hajong Verbal Morphology. (SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description, 36.) Dallas, Texas: SIL International. 14pp.
sil.org/system/files/reapdata/10/05/91/100591143500824470441972756040904768048/sillcdd_36.pdf

Choudhury Ghulam Mustafa, Al Kafil. 2015. Phonological analysis of Hajong. (Doctoral dissertation, Silchar: Assam University; xv+305pp.)

Suthar, Nabin Chandra. 2000. A socio-cultural study of the Hajongs of Assam. (Doctoral dissertation, Gauhati University; 277pp.)

https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/17/94/43/17944307071856830681259992851645036622/Hajong_Phrasebook.pdf

Choudhury, Al Kafil. (2018). Hajong- A Study in Relation to Assamese and Bengali. Addaiyan Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 1. 10.36099/ajahss.1.1.3.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/north-east-indian-linguistics/phonological-description-of-the-hajong-language/792A57FF45E9F53108393E3323C10BCC

https://glosbe.com/haj/en

https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/13/30/24/13302404818480000534826972558393126640/Case_Marking_in_Hajong_Final_PROOF_ready.pdf

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
Hajong is written with Bengali script and 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
Meghalaya and Assam

Size / Number of users

Number of users

71792
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

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
Source
https://www.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Haijong%2FHajong

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

Completion