Phom Naga in India

Speakers

54,416

Type

Location

Phom Naga in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Phom Naga in India

Size

54,416

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
Phom, B. Patong 1987. Phom hashihthulei lai. Central Institute of Indian languages. Mysore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c554e1JxCHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-luwyWwmjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_qCsod5iR4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP3zmvy-_vs


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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/search?query=phom&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/language/nph

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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
Atiqua Bano. 2008. A descriptive study of Phom language. (Doctoral dissertation, Shillong: North-Eastern Hill University; 330pp.)

Kumar, Braj Bihari and Podhok Phom and Anandi Prasad Mandal. 1973. Hindi Phom English dictionary. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad (NBP). 97pp.

Singh, Shailendra Kumar and Bano, Atiqua. 2012. Phonological system in Phom language. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 41. 148-170.

Robbins Burling and L. Amon Phom. 1998. Phom Phonology and Word List. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 21. 13-42.

Atiqua Bano and Shailendra Kumar Singh. 2007. Linguistic Ecology of Phom Language. South Asian Language Review XVII. 49-62.

Kumar, Braj Bihari. 1973. Phom vyākaraṇ kī ruparekha. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad.

Kumar, Braj Bihari. 1973. Phom vyākaraṇ kī ruparekha. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad. 1973. Hindi-Phom-English Dictionary. Kumar, Braj Bihari. Nagaland Bhasha Parishad.

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
Phom Naga is written with 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
Nagaland

Size / Number of users

Number of users

54416
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

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

Census of India

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.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Phom

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

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion