Mewati in India

Speakers

856,643

Type

Location

Mewati in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Mewati in India

Size

856,643

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
Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Mewati folksongs, literature, stories, etc written in Devanagiri script are available on:
https://mewati.org.in/

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.443963/page/n1/mode/2up

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
About language and culture, short films, dubbed movies in Mewati are available.
https://archive.org/search?query=mewati

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Folk tales, songs and other audio material are available in Mewati
https://archive.org/search?query=mewati

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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
Few works such as:
1. A. R. Fatihi. 1987. Economy of articulation in Mewati phonology. (Doctoral dissertation, Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University; 371pp.)
2.Lakhan Gusain. 2003. Mewati. (Languages of the World/Materials, 386.) München: Lincom. i+79pp.
3. D. R. Bharadwaj. 1974. Descriptive analysis of Mewati. (Doctoral dissertation, Poona: Deccan College; 356pp.)
4. S. P. Srivastava. 2011. Mewati. In Rajasthan: Part-I, 247-324. India: Language Division Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner.
5. Kelsall, Juliana and Mathai, Eldose K. 2012. Sociolinguistic survey of selected Rajasthani speech varieties of Rajasthan, India, Volume 4: Mewati. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2012-032. 41.

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
Uses Devanagiri script in India.

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
Haryana and Rajasthan

Size / Number of users

Number of users

856643
Source
Census of India, 2011
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

Age distribution of users

0

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

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
Comments
District/Village

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

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Areas of law the language is used

  • Criminal law
  • Civil law
  • Administrative law

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion