Koch in India

Speakers

36,434

Type

Location

Koch in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Koch in India

Size

36,434

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
1. https://lai.ciil.org/items/6736da8c-8af6-4c70-800e-bd7e37fc5712
2. https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/searchbt
3. Kondakov (2013) mentions some works in Koch: • Kro-Rungtãk – Koch into English and Assamese, a book published by the literature society Koch Krorang Mathop in Tura in 2003; contains mixed Koch vocabulary; • magazines (contain pieces of poetry and prose from different dialects); • the New Testament (Koch-Rabha), published by the Bible Society of India in 2000; • some Christian booklets (Koch-Rabha).

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
1. Koch language //Let's learn koch //কোঁচ ভাষা //কোঁচ ভাষা কওঁ আহা: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLF8SziFVr8
2. Koch own language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bgQeut8OSA
3. Koch Music Song ||Koch Language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abhOmI5UIYU

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Kondakov (2013) writes "there exist some audio materials in Harigaya and Koch-Rabha; these are mostly songs recorded on cassettes or compact discs."

Reference: Kondakov, A. (2013). Koch dialects of Meghalaya and Assam: A Sociolinguistic survey. North East Indian Linguistics, 5, 3-59.

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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. https://lai.ciil.org/items/6736da8c-8af6-4c70-800e-bd7e37fc5712
2. https://bharatavani.in/bharatavani/home/searchbt
3. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/koch1250
4. Hazarika, I. M. & Kakati. L. (2022). Consonant Phoneme of Koch Language: An Analytical Study. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering. Vol. 7. Special Issue 5. Available here: https://kalaharijournals.com/resources/Special_Issue_April_May_78.pdf
5. Shaikh, R. (2018). An Ethnolinguistic Study of Koch. Language in India, 18(6).
7. Dattamajumdar, S. (2020). Ethno-Linguistic Vitality of Koch. The Buckingham Journal of Language and Linguistics, 12, 55-76.
8. Kondakov, A. (2020). Outline of Harigaya Koch Grammar. SIL Language and Culture Documentation and Description 46. SIL International. ISSN 1939-0785.
9. Kondakov, A. (2013). Koch dialects of Meghalaya and Assam: A Sociolinguistic survey. North East Indian Linguistics, 5, 3-59.

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language
Comments
"The Koch community, known as Rabha in Assam, has launched its own script for use in pre-primary schools."

https://www.sentinelassam.com/north-east-india-news/assam-news/koch-script-launched-for-trial-in-pre-primary-schools-at-north-mendabari-556980

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
Koch is written with Assamese, Bengali, Roman 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

Size / Number of users

Number of users

36434
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

Educational attainment

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
Kondakov, A. (2013). Koch dialects of Meghalaya and Assam: A Sociolinguistic survey. North East Indian Linguistics, 5, 3-59.
Comments
The Koch-speaking people are mainly found in Garo Hills of Meghalaya and in Lower Assam and also in other parts of Assam, in West Bengal, Tripura.

Economic 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
Specify
Kondakov, A. (2013) writes "there is an organization Koch Krorang Mathop in Tura which publishes Koch materials, such as books, an annual Koch magazine."

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

Legal system

Completion