Mannan in India

Speakers

9,991

Type

Location

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Mannan in India

Size

9,991

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
Southern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4IjJ-nRh2g&pp=ygUeTUFOTkFOIHRyaWJlcyBjdWx1dHVyYWwgdmlkZW9z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvHvpbEJIl8&pp=ygUeTUFOTkFOIHRyaWJlcyBjdWx1dHVyYWwgdmlkZW9z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7qn8e6GgTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmA1pKiZ3hU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJvRqwlQvYA&pp=ygUcTUFOTkFOIHRyaWJlcyBjdWx0dXJlIHZpZGVvcw%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MANNAN+tribes+ culutural+videos.
https://archive.org/search?query=MANNAN&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/25821
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/4049.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/4049.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp4/4049.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/avi/4049.zip

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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. šrī Kumutavalli Tirumaṅkai maṉṉaṉ by Je. Rājakōpālappiḷḷai, author, 1913.
2. Monsy, Annie. 1997. The linguistic significance of Mannan dialect. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 24. 105-144.
3. Monsy, Annie. 1994. Selectional restrictions of serial verbs in Mannan dialect. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 23. 79-88.
4. Iyer, L. A. Krishna. 1924. The Mannans of Travancore. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay XIII. 131-146, 381-383.
5. S. S. Shashi. 1994. Life and Customs of Mannan. In Tribes of the Southern Highlands, 287-295. New Delhi: Anmol.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mann1246
6. Vigeesh M.A., 2019. The History and Culture of the Mannans in Idukki District, (Ph.D dissertation) Devamatha College, Mahatma Gandhi University.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=MANNAN&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc
https://archive.org/search?query=MANNAN+LANGUAGE&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

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
Mannan written with Malayalam 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
Kerala

Size / Number of users

Number of users

9991
Source
SCHEDULED TRIBES BY MOTHER TONGUE (FOR EACH TRIBE SEPARATELY) - 2011 CENSUS.
https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/search/node?keys=mannan%20litarecy%20rate
Year
2011

Users within total population

Educational attainment

Primary education

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

More than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Source

SCHEDULED TRIBES BY MOTHER TONGUE (FOR EACH TRIBE SEPARATELY) - 2011 CENSUS.
https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/search/node?keys=mannan%20lit…

Year
2011

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.ethnologue.com/language/mjv/

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

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
Comments
Village

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

Completion