Bodo Gadaba in India

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

Gopīnāth Mohāntẏ. 1956. Gadba Bhasa [The Gadaba language]. Wardha/Cuttack: Akhila Bhārat Sevāsangha. (Also as Mahānti, Gopinātha (1956) Gādabā Bhāṣā. Kaṭaka: Akhila Bhārata Sarbasebā Sangha (Grāmasebaka Samabāya Press).)

Gauḍa, Duḥkhiśyāma. 1991. Gādabā (byākaraṇa, racanābaḷī, śabdakośa). (Tribal Language Study Series, 6.) Bhubaneswar: Academy of Tribal Dialects and Culture, Harijan and Tribal Welfare Department, Government of Orissa. 148pp.

Duanu Muduli and Dambur Kirsani and Trinath Sisa and Manas Ranjan Muduli. 2018. Odia-Gadaba Sabdakosh. Special Development Council, Mayurbhanj, Planning & Convergence Department, Govt. of Odisha. 81pp.

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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=iSl8Dpmxs98
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39o1Fi1JDg4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWPOfOV2PV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDmW6AunhPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54JWIatP5K0

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Audio

Extended corpora
Annotated corpora
Corpus/corpora
Materials/corpus
Some materials
No materials

Digital

Yes

Comments

https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Gutob%20Gadaba

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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

Vavilala Subba Rao and D Radha Krishna Patnaik. 1992. Gadaba, the language and the people. Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh: Sri Papayaradhya Sahiti Kendram. ix+101+60pp.

Jamuna Rajan and Herold Rajan. 2001. Grammar write-up of Gutob-Gadaba. Lamtaput, Koraput, Orissa: Asha Kiran Society. iv+46+5pp.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174638/mode/2up

Arlo Griffiths. 2008. Gutob. In Anderson, Gregory D. S. (ed.), The Munda languages, 633-681. London & New York: Routledge.

Arun Ghosh. 2003. Linguistic sketch of Gutob. In Arun Ghosh (ed.), An ethnolinguistic profile of Eastern India: a case of South Orissa, 107-131. Burdwan: Dept. of Bengali (D.S.A.), University of Burdwan.

Subba Rao, Vavilala and Radha Krishna Patnaik. 1992. Gadaba: The Language and the People. Amaravathi: Soumya Sushama Publications.

Ramadas, G. 1931. The Gadabas. Man in India XI. 160-173.

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

Gutob Gadaba is 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

Odisha, Andhra Pradesh

Size / Number of users

Number of users

40976

Source

Census of India

Year

2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

0

Age distribution of users

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Literacy of users

Less than 10% of users with literacy in the language

Actual percentage

9

Source

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=22d78857….

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=Gadaba

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

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

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