Vaiphei in India

Speakers

42,748

Type

Location

Vaiphei in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Vaiphei in India

Size

42,748

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

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Anonymous. 1957. I Lalpau Leh Hukdampa Jesu Kris Thuthung Thak. Bangalore: Bible Society of India and Ceylon. 524pp.

Henzagen Vaiphei. 2012. Vaiphei Tuanthu (Vaiphei Folktales) https://archive.org/details/dli.language.1233/mode/2up

Vaiphei Pau Matdân Leh Thuphuak | Vaiphei Grammar and Composition, Part - I, Class-XI and XII
https://lai.ciil.org/items/81f84a4d-78b1-4cff-a074-245f102641f9


Vaiphei Pau Suina, Class-VIII. 2009. https://archive.org/details/dli.language.1236/mode/2up

Textbooks in Vaiphei are available on https://archive.org/search?query=vaiphei

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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=NKxh-ENjEFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRvTefhr2SQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7pFkbOWHAE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixzSMePnbt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3W2sVjY0g4

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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/fa8a23bb-67cd-4ef2-8ec0-80faf3bccea6
https://lai.ciil.org/items/477e76f7-412c-43aa-8415-ebae616c2a86
https://lai.ciil.org/items/8c7f9e6e-b4a0-4863-8171-4de71b6100ec\
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/837.zip

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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
Suantak, Khawlsonkim. 2013. Vaiphei phonetics phonology and morphology a descriptive study. (Doctoral dissertation, Shillong: North-Eastern Hill University; xi+284pp.) https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/194891

Braja Bihārī Kumāra. 1975. Hindī Vāiphe śabda-sūcī. Kohimā: Nāgālaiṇḍa Bhāshā Parishad.

Jesse Andrew Prichard. 2018. Verbal Stem Alternation in Vaiphei. (MA thesis, Portland State University; 94pp.)

S. A. Lyngdoh and C. Lalremzani and K. Suantak. 2014. Verb compounding in Gangte and Vaiphei. In War, J. and S. K. Singh and S. A. Lyngdoh and B. Khyriem (eds.), Tibeto-Burman Linguistics of North-East India, 230-241. Guwahati: EBH Publishers.

S. Prim Vaiphei. 1975. The Vaiphei tribe. M.K. Lengpau. iii+66pp.

Yumnam ,Satyabati Devi, 2010. A comparative phonology of Hmar Paite and Vaiphei. Department of Linguistics, Manipur University.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/105257

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
Vaiphei is written with Latin 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
Manipur

Size / Number of users

Number of users

42748
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

More 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=Vaiphei

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