Kadar in India

Speakers

3,599

Type

Location

Kadar in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Kadar in India

Size

3,599

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

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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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=Mw7Y3B4LzrY&pp=ygUdS0FEQVIgdHJpYmVzIGN1bHV0dXJhbCB2aWRlb3M%3D
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=KADAR+tribes+culutural+videos
https://archive.org/search?query=KADAR&page=3&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
Some audio recordings available in Kadar.
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/64812
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/64813
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/11279.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/11279.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp4/11279.zip
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/kej
https://archive.org/search?query=KADAR&page=3&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22audio%22

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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. R. Indira. 1976. Descriptive analysis of Kāḍar. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College; iv+353pp.)
2. J. Suresh. 1982. A Descriptive study of Kadar language of Annamalai hills. (Doctoral dissertation, Annamalainagar: Annamalai University).
3. Thundyil, Zacharias. 1975. The language of the Kadars. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics IV. 229-248.
4. S. S. Karkar and Gautamsankar Ray and Papia Bhattacharjee and A. R. Banerjee. 1959. The Kadar of Kerala. Man in India 39. 235-238.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kada1242
5. Indira, R, 2011. Descriptive analysis of Kadar, Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune, (Ph.D thesis) Savitribai Phule Pune University.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=KADAR+language&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc

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
Kadar write 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

3599
Source
SCHEDULED TRIBES BY MOTHER TONGUE (FOR EACH TRIBE SEPARATELY) - 2011 census
hhttps://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/43032

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

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

https://www.censusindia2011.com/chhattisgarh/raipur/bhatapara/kadar-pop…

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/kej/

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