Koya in India

Speakers

407,423

Type

Location

Koya in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Koya in India

Size

407,423

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
Eastern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Koya textbook for class-II and class-III by the education Board of Odisha - https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Koya
2. KOYA BHASA SIKSHYANA PUSTIKA by Academy of Tribal Language and Culture Odisha - https://lai.ciil.org/items/c63ee742-6fb3-4ebe-b2be-be5a35107c8d

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Documentation of Koya Language in Khammam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBNFtdzPpNE
2. Koyas Tribe | Tribes of India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CSph0kHQ_U
3. KOYA LANGUAGE LEARNING-1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loVKZ9yE5fA
4. tribal village Koya gudem/Koya Language/swatis mania/maredumilli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq4jHHYKAQs

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Tribal songs of Orissa : Koya-Gadaba-Kondh-Santal tribes: https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999776971102121

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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. Koya by Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes research and training institute, Bubaneshwar, Orissa. http://kbk.nic.in/tribalprofile/Koya.pdf
2. Grammars , Dictionaries, Sociolinguistics survey, ethnographic studies, etc on Koya language are listed here: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/koya1251
3. Culture and Ethno-linguistic Aspects of Koyas: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/cala2020-20/

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
Koya is written in the Oriya, Telugu, Devanagari or Latin script. Source: https://www.liquisearch.com/koya_language

Koya also has its own script which is recently created by DR. Prasanna Sree: https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/alphabets/koya/

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

407423
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

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 use in administration

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

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