Gangte in India

Speakers

16,542

Type

Location

Gangte in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Gangte in India

Size

16,542

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
Comments
1. There are Gangte Grammar and composition, Gangte Literature, Gante course book for class IX and X, Hindi-Gangte-English Dictionary available in Bharatvani website: https://bharatavani.in
2. Some Gangte school textbooks are availble in CIIL website: https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Gangte

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Gangte tribal dance from Manipur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-xdvN_qAJQ

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Audio recording of wordlist data in Gangte language: https://lai.ciil.org/items/9a290313-57dc-4cf6-92c7-293e866746af

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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. Devi, Samurailatpam Miranda. 2010. A descriptive grammar of Gangte. (Doctoral dissertation, Canchipur: Manipur University; 184pp.)
2. Kumar, Braj Bihari. 1974. Hindi Gangte English vocabulary. In Kumar, Braj Bihari (ed.) Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad (NBP). 34pp.
3. S. A. Lyngdoh and C. Lalremzani and K. Suantak. 2014. Verb compounding in Gangte and Vaiphei. In War, J. and S. K. Singh and S. A. Lyngdoh and B. Khyriem (eds.), Tibeto-Burman Linguistics of North-East India, 230-241. Guwahati: EBH Publishers.
4. Touthang, L. S., & Sharma, H. S. (2022). Compounding in Gangte. Language in India, 22(5).

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language
Comments
Introduction of Gangte Language in Class XI & XII as MIL under COHSEM: https://manipureducation.gov.in/noc-introduction-of-gangte-language-in-class-xi-xii-as-mil-under-cohsem-2/

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
Gangte has no script but 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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

16542
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Language competence

Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

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

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

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