Riang (India) in India

Speakers

58,539

Type

Location

Riang (India) in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Riang (India) in India

Size

58,539

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
North East India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Kumar, Braj Bihari and Vijayarāghava Reḍḍī. 1975. Hindī riyāṅ Sabda-sūcī = Hindi Reang vocabulary. Kohima: Nagaland Bhasha Parishad. 16pp.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some cultural videos are available i n Riang language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkLUfuqAvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQ_61VixaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzbe16vBPWw

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/ril

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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
Rotnojoy Reang. 2019. Consonant Combination and Syllable Structure in Reang. (MA thesis, Silchar: Assam University; 86pp.)

Baskaran, Ganesh. 2016. An Introduction to Reang Phonology. Silchar, Assam: Natun Diganta Prakashani.



Baskaran, Ganesh. 2016. Reang Word Vocabulary Book. Silchar, Assam: Natun Diganta Prakashani.

Arunima, Singha and Singha, K. Kalpi. 2017. Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Reang. Language in India 17. 1-11.

Chaudhuri, Jagadish Gan. 2011. The Riang of Tripura. 2nd edn. Agartala: Tribal Research and Cultural Institute, Government of Tripura. xiii+90pp.

History of the Reang EBH Publishers (India) Lincoln Reang 978-93-90434-99-2 20/12/2020

Tellis Janet Florine. 2014. The riang of tripura. Department of Anthropology, Gauhati University

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
Riang 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
Tripura, Mizoram, Assam

Size / Number of users

Number of users

58539
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=Reang

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
District/Village

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