Mech in India

Speakers

11,546

Type

Location

Mech in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Mech in India

Size

11,546

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
Some written material is available in Mech language
https://archive.org/details/bodo-mech-janajatir-loko-utsab.tirj/mode/2up

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Videos related to culture, language and tradition are available in Mech language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrHmDLIGfGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwFgEtolBbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYsiweJQAj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJNhW0Bwq14

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio recordings are available on the given link
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/brx

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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
Description about the language and vocabulary of Mech language are available
Kiryu, Kazuyuki. “An Outline of the Meche Language —grammar, text and glossary—.” (2007).

Muchahary, R. (2014). Variation in the lexicon of the Mech (Boro) dialect of North Bengal and standard Boro language spoken in Assam.
https://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0214/ijsrp-p26109.pdf
Festivals of the Mech Kachari community of Assam a documentation and analysis
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/413046

MECH PEOPLE, https://www.wbnorthbengaldev.gov.in/HtmlPage/mech.aspx

Tense System of the Mech (Bodo) Language of North Bengal , (2014) Rujab Muchahary, Language in India
http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2014/rujabbodotense2.pdf

https://www.academia.edu/11434634/Variation_in_the_lexicon_of_the_Mech_Boro_dialect_of_North_Bengal_and_standard_Boro_language_spoken_in_Assam

A. Campbell. 1839. Note on the Mechis, together with a small Vocabulary of the Language. Journal of the Asiaric Society 8. 623-631.

A Short Grammar of the Mech Or Boro Language: Together with a Small Vocabulary
By Lars Olsen Skrefsrud
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=jdCzGwAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

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
Mech is written with Assamese and Bengali Scripts.

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
West Bengal

Size / Number of users

Number of users

11546
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

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.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Mech%2FMechhia

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