Awadhi in India

Speakers

3,850,906

Type

Location

Awadhi in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Awadhi in India

Size

3,850,906

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
Uttar Pradesh

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Literature, dictionary, grammar etc.

https://lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publications/awadhi-krishna-kavya-aur-uske-kavi

https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/searchbt

https://glosbe.com/awa/en

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.481490

https://www.exoticindiaart.com/find?groups=book&q=awadhi

https://indianculture.gov.in/ebooks/evolution-awadhi-branch-hindi-0

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/357521

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.ICCR-1496-VHS

https://archive.org/details/awadhi-makasar-language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uhossX4UXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smOOS1FwR2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taKTVUsO7Vk

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=awadhi+movie

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://www.languageshome.com/New/english-awadhi/

https://globalrecordings.net/en/search/general?search=awadhi

https://zeno.fm/radio/language-genre/Awadhi/Religious/

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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
Saksena, Baburam. 1971. Evolution of Awadhi (a branch of Hindi). 2nd edn. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. xviii+562pp.

Ahmad, Suhail. 1986. A descriptive analysis of Eastern Awadhi dialect of Jaunpur. (Doctoral dissertation, Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University; xii+253pp.)

S. H. Kellogg. 1876. A Grammar of the Hindi Language in Which are Treated the High Hindi, Braj and the Eastern Hindi of the Ramayan of Tulsidas, also the Colloquial Dialects of Rajputana, Kumaon, Avadh, Riwa, Bhojpur, Magadha, Mathila etc. with Copious Philological Notes. Allahabad: American Baptist Mission Press. 460pp.

Anton I. Kogan. 2011. Avadxi. In Tatiana I. Oranskaya and Yulia V. Mazurova and Andrej A. Kibrik and Leonid I. Kulikov and Aleksandr Y. Rusakov (eds.), Jazyki Mira: Novye Indoarijskie Jazyki, 105-119. Moskva: Academia.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/awad1243

https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=awadhi&go=

https://archive.org/search?query=awadhi

https://indianculture.gov.in/ebooks/evolution-awadhi-branch-hindi-0

https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/searchbt

https://lucknowdigitallibrary.com/publications/awadhi-krishna-kavya-aur-uske-kavi

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
Awadhi written with Devanagari 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
Uttar Pradesh

Size / Number of users

Number of users

3850906
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=Awadhi

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

  • Language not used
  • Translations
  • Healthcare information
  • Nursing care (incl. elderly)
  • Doctor-patient communication
  • Generally used

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
  • 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