Bondo in India

Speakers

12,231

Type

Location

Bondo in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Bondo in India

Size

12,231

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
Sāhu, Kāḷandī Caraṇa. 1993. Baṇḍā (byākaraṇa o śabdakośa). (Tribal Language Study Series, 14.) Bhubaneswar: Academy of Tribal Dialects and Culture, Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Orissa. 121pp.

Panda, Gobardhan. 2004. Banda Banabasinka Bibaha Pratha. Koraput: District Council of Culture. 104--108.

Panda, Gobardhan. 1998. Remosam ({Manisara} {Bhasa}). 1st edn. Jeypore: District Council of Culture, Koraput. (Title: ରେମଶାମ୍: ମଣିଷ ଭାଷା).
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bond1245


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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=jhKIf-Pk15U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2aLgbCUVtw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8fH8te3x0E

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Bondo

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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
Swain, Rajashree. 1997. A Grammar of Bonda Language. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College; 231pp.)

Anderson, Gregory D. S. and K. David Harrison. 2008. Remo (Bonda). In Anderson, Gregory D. S. (ed.), The Munda languages, 557-632. London & New York: Routledge.

Bhattacharya, Sudhibhushan. 1968. A Bonda dictionary. (Building centenary and silver jubilee series, 18.) 1st edn. Poona: [Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute]. xxxv+212pp. (Includes bibliographical references).

Hadi Majhi and Buda Muduli and Dhaneswar Kirsani. 2018. Odia-Bonda Sabdakosh. Special Development Council, Mayurbhanj, Planning & Convergence Department, Govt. of Odisha. 146pp.

Patnaik, N. 1989. The Bondo. Bhubaneswar: Tribal and Harijan Research-cum-Training Institute. 110pp.

Kumar, K. Ramesh. 2018. Remo/Bondo-English Pictorial Dictionary. Mysore: Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL), Central Institute of Indian Languages. 103pp.

Fernandez, Frank. 1983. The morphology of the Remo (Bonda) verbs. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 12. 15-45.

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
Bondo is written with Odia 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
Odisha

Size / Number of users

Number of users

12231
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

Less than 10% of users with literacy in the language
Actual percentage
6
Source

https://shaan.academy/indias-tribal-communities-the-bonda-tribe-of-odis…

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 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

Completion