Rongmei Naga in India

Speakers

68,706

Type

Location

Rongmei Naga in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Rongmei Naga in India

Size

68,706

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
1. Folk Songs of Kabui (Rongmei): https://archive.org/details/dli.language.0016
2. Some books on Rongmei available in CIIL library: http://library.ciil.org:8080/search
/query?term_1=Kabui&theme=ciil
3. The language is taught as a First Language paper from class I to X of Board of Secondary Education, Manipur. Ruangmei is studied as a Minor Indian Language (MIL) in Class XI & XII of Council of Higher Secondary Education Manipur (COHSEM). So textbooks are available in Rongmei language.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are lots of videos on Rongmei language, culture, learning materials available in Youtube. Some are given below:
https://www.youtube.com/@rongmeiindigenouslifestyle9159
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rongmei+jesus+film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMhOjGDNQ2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV12SQTOhzw

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some Audio recordings available in CIIL website: https://lai.ciil.org/browse/language?value=Rongmei

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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://archive.org/details/dli.language.0016
2. https://www.ethnologue.com/about/language-info#Resources
3. https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=Rongmei&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc
4. http://library.ciil.org:8080/search/query?term_1=Kabui&theme=ciil
5. Some of the works are listed in Glottolog: https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/rong1266
6. Textbooks are available for language paper at school school.

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

Comments
Rongmei is written using Metei script and Roman 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

68706
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Generational use

Educational attainment

Language competence

Literacy of users

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
Comments
Rongmei is spoken in Manipur, Nagaland, Assam

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

Legal system

Geographical scope of legal language use

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National
  • International

Completion