Kisan in India

Speakers

206,100

Type

Location

Kisan in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Kisan in India

Size

206,100

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
1. Book of Tribal languages and tribal language education at elementary level in India by Awadesh K.Mishra
2. https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/searchbt
3. There are some works written in Odia script available in the repository here: https://repository.tribal.gov.in/browse?type=subject&order=ASC&rpp=20&value=Kisan

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Kisan - A Tribe of Jharkhand | Tribes of India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GudvNlE2Hh4
2. First Kisan Language Award Winning movie HEALU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfwO40ZamYs
3. Kisan/Koda Tribes Of India/Odisha & Language || କିସାନ କୋଡା Mahula Phula Village Vlog @OdishaVillage : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElxEdf7yQ5Q

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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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
1. Perumalsamy, P. (2020). Phonological Features of Kisan Mother Tongue Spoken in Odisha State. Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow Volume 20: 1 January 2020 ISSN 1930-2940, 56. aVAILABLE HERE: https://www.academia.edu/download/63273464/drperumalsamykisanlanguagephonologyfinal20200511-52394-75lzt2.pdf
2. Kujur, A.K. (2016). Tense and Aspect System in Kisan. Indian Linguistics 77:1-2, pp. 133-144, ISSN: 0378-0759.
3. Kujur, A.K. (2016). Grammatical Mood in Kisan. Nepalese Linguistics, 31, pp. 39- 43. ISSN:0259-1006.
4. Kujur, A.K. (2015). Verb Morphology in Kisan. Language in India, 15, pp. 92-101. ISSN 1930-2940
5. https://www.scstrti.in/index.php/communities/tribes/91-tribes/177-kisan
6. Multilingual Education (MLE) for Tribal Children of Odisha: https://repository.education.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/multilingual-education-mle-for-tribal-children-of-odisha.pdf
7. Kujur, A.K. (2019). Transition from Dravidian to Indo-Aryan. Working Papers on Linguistics and Literature, Vol. XIII:1, ISSN 2349-8420.
8. History of Kisan Tribe and its Language. Journal of Modern Thamizh Research, Vol. 6(3), (pp. 256-262). ISSN: 2321-984X.
9. There are some works available in the repository here: https://repository.tribal.gov.in/browse?type=subject&order=ASC&rpp=20&value=Kisan

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language
Comments
Uses Odia script in school textbooks.

Graphisation & script encoding

Comments
Uses Odia 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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

206100
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

All generations

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
Ota, A. B., & Sahoo, T. (2020). Kisan. Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute, CRPF Square, Bhubaneswar.
Comments
Ota and Sahoo (2013) reports that In India, they are distributed in the states of Bihar, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. In the state of Odisha, the Kisan are found in most of the districts. But their concentration is more in the districts like Sundargarh, Sambalpur and Keonjhar.

Economic dimension

Functional use in administration

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

Digital sphere

  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name
  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name
  • Language not used
  • Texting and messaging
  • Social media
  • Blogs, web pages, e-books
  • Edutainment products and services
  • Social media have a localized interface
  • Localized web search and e-commerce services
  • Localized operating systems
  • Machine translation
  • Top level domain name

Legal system

Completion