Apatani in India

Speakers

44,815

Type

Location

Apatani in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Apatani in India

Size

44,815

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

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.CCRT-387-BC
https://archive.org/details/pli.ccrt.Apatani
https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.CVI-SUR_R_1010-UMHB
https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.CVI-SUR_R_1011-UMHB
https://archive.org/search?query=Apatani&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sINIasZsBYU&pp=ygUWQXBhdGFuaSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxQnGO6OIs&pp=ygUWQXBhdGFuaSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXasbw3tYkg&pp=ygUWQXBhdGFuaSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJhmJdV9-ss&pp=ygUWQXBhdGFuaSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-RmbnltXNk&pp=ygUWQXBhdGFuaSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqyNEQKsU8U&pp=ygUWQXBhdGFuaSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W6Xo733BbM&pp=ygUWQXBhdGFuaSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Apatani+ tribe+culture+

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/62787
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/62788
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/682.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/682.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp4/682.zip
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/apt
https://lai.ciil.org/items/65d3cfde-12fd-49b8-9e12-b5bd7d73a5c6
https://lai.ciil.org/items/63a7a463-a500-4289-ae5b-d5d0799094ca
https://lai.ciil.org/items/5dfc7ace-1baa-49f2-9cac-adeeab40dfb4
https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=Apatani&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

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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. P. T. Abraham. 1985. Apatani Grammar. (Central Institute of Indian Languages: Grammar Series, 12.) Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. xi+187pp. (Bibliography: p. [185]-187).
2. Simon, I. M. 1972. An Introduction to Apatani. [Shillong]: Shillong: Shri T.~P.~Khaund, Director of Information and Public Relations of Arunachadal Pradesh. ii+192pp. (Printed at Gangtok, Sikkim: Government of India Press.)
3. Padi Kani and Mihin Kani. 1994. The Apatani Grammar. Itanagar: M/S Frontier Publisher & Distributor. 41pp.
4. Sai, Tasso. 1983. A guide to Apatani language. The Director of Information and Public Relations, Arunachal Pradesh, Shillong; Guwahati (781003): The Tribune Press. 25pp.
5. Pascal Bouchery. 2009. Dictionary of the Apatani language. Apatani Language Project. 713pp.
6. Abraham, P. T. 1987. Apatani-English-Hindi dictionary. (CIIL Dictionary Series, 3.) Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. 135pp.
7. Nishi, Yoshio. 1992. Lho-pa [Lho-pa]. In Takashi Kamei and Rokurō Kōno and Eiichi Chino (eds.), Gengogaku daijiten [The Sanseido encyclopaedia of linguistics], 1055-1067. Tokyo: Sanseidō.
8. Mark W. Post and Kanno Tage. 2013. Apatani phonology and lexicon, with a special focus on tone. Himalayan Linguistics 12. 17-75.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/apat1240
9. Apatani Grammar by P T Abraham 1985.
10. अपातानी-अंग्रेजी-हिंदी शब्दकोश by E Annamalai, 1987

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
Apatani written with Latin script
https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?&item_id=search

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
ARUNACHAL PRADESH

Size / Number of users

Number of users

44815
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand some, speak/sign little

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://langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Apatani

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

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion