Khezha Naga in India

Speakers

41,625

Type

Location

Khezha Naga in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Khezha Naga in India

Size

41,625

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

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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-naga-khezha-language

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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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. https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=Khezha%20language&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC&f.language=Khezha,equals
2. Kapfo, K. (2007). Kuzhale-Chahale dikshüneri: Khezha-English dictionary. Central Institute of Indian Languages.
3. Some works are listed here: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/khez1235
4. Kapfo, K. (1989). Tones in Khezha noun constructions. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 12(2), 67-78.
5. The Ethnology of the Khezhas & The Khezha Grammar: http://www.ciil-ebooks.net/html/khezha/part1.htm
6. https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/91942

Standardization

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

Graphisation & script encoding

Comments
Khezha Naga uses 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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

41625
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

Educational attainment

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

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

  • Language not used
  • Translations
  • Healthcare information
  • Nursing care (incl. elderly)
  • Doctor-patient communication
  • Generally used

Legal system

Completion