Shina in India

Speakers

32,247

Type

Location

Shina in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Shina in India

Size

32,247

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
North Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
No
Comments
Abdullkkhaliq Taj. Shina Zaban O Adab

Masood Samoon. Shina Zaban: Sauti Nizam Aur Rasm ul Khat’

Some textbooks are also available in Shina language

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.aparat.com/result/shina%20zaban?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8cRliH79h4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-n1RM31dJ8

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://lai.ciil.org/items/46dd6c41-23fd-4529-8fff-5370a5cd97d5
https://lai.ciil.org/items/685a65e3-8bec-4e3b-9bd2-fccc22674520
https://lai.ciil.org/items/892a2a06-fb7a-4f17-a834-1cd5f16a7cce
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/873

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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
B. B. Rajapurohit. 1983. Phonetic Reader Series-Shina. Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysuru, https://archive.org/details/dli.language.0837/page/n15/mode/2up

Ahmed, Musavir. 2016. "A descriptive study of the phonology of Gurezi Shina." Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 87+.

Ahmed Musavir, 2019. "A Descriptive Grammar of Gurezi Shina" SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description. ISSN 1939-0785
https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/42/76/58/42765842007020906671347350716367943401/sillcdd_40.pdf

Rajapurohit, B. B. 1983. Shina phonetic reader. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages.

Schmidt, R. L. 2004. A grammatical comparison of Shina dialects. In A. Saxena (ed.). Himalayan
languages past and present. Trends in linguistic studies and monographs 149. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schmidt, R. L. and V. K. Kaul. 2008. A comparative analysis of Shina and Kashmiri vocabularies. Acta Orientala, 69, 231-302.

Schmidt, R. L. and V. K. Kaul. 2010. A grammatical sketch of Guresi Shina. In K. Karttunen (ed.).
Anantam Sastram: Indological and linguistic studies in honour of Bertil Tikkanen. Helsinki: Finnish Oriental Society.

Schmidt, R. L. and R. Kohistani. 1998. Paalus/kostyo/Shina revisited. Acta Orientalia, 59, pp. 106-149.

Schmidt, R. L. and R. Kohistani. 2008. A grammar of the Shina language of Indus Kohistan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.

Bailey, T. G. 1924. The grammar of the Shina (ṢiṆā) language. London: The Royal Asiatic Society.

Ahmed, M. and T. Ahmad. 2012. A Note on Kashmiri and Shina Phonology. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics (IJL), V, pp. 255-262. Srinagar: University of Kashmir.

Ahmed, Musavir. 2014. Language use patterns and Ethnolinguistic Vitality of Shina speaking Gurezi Immigrants. International Journal of Sociology of Language, 230, pp 1-17.

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
Shina is written with Perso-Arabic and Devanagari 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
Jammu and Kashmir

Size / Number of users

Number of users

32247
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

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

Census of India

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.langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Shina

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
State/District

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