Maram Naga in India

Speakers

32,460

Type

Location

Maram Naga in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Maram Naga in India

Size

32,460

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

Digital
Yes

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.jesusfilm.org/watch/jfp-classic.html/maram-naga.html
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-q=maram+naga+ songs#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:785d1f59,vid:6lHnqxJhsr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adg4CT_9ZjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhaBo3ZNyEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxGefk6mSqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqljDO8rxX8



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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. There is a few songs available in Maram Naga. Links below:
https://soundcloud.com/maram-naga
https://5fish.mobi/A29871?ui=en
2. Agricultural folk songs of Manipur recorded by staffs of Krishi Vigyan
Kendras (KVKs) in North East Region under ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research institute, Zone-III with its headquarters at Umiam, Meghalaya. In this there are Maram Naga folksongs too. The lyrics are e-published in given link: http://icarzcu3.gov.in/book_publications/3%20Manipur_Folk%20Song.pdf

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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. Singh, Pebam Ibopishak. 1984. A descriptive grammar of Maram. (Doctoral dissertation, Canchipur: Manipur University; 387pp.)
2. Stirn, Aglaja and Peter van Ham. 2003. The hidden world of the Naga: living traditions in Northeast India and Burma.
3. Kumar, Braj Bihari and Hari Prasāda Rāya and Kha Kāisoṅ Māikela Marām. 1975. Hindī Marām śabda-sūcī / Hindi Maram vocabulary [Hindi Maram Vocabulary]. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad. 16pp.
4. https://infomaram.wordpress.com/about-maram-naga-tribe/

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
MANIPUR

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
MANIPUR

Size / Number of users

Number of users

32460
Source
census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand little, speak/sign none

Literacy of users

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

https://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/268446-maram-centre-manipur.h…

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

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