Vasavi in India

Speakers

187,036

Type

Location

Vasavi in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Vasavi in India

Size

187,036

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
Western India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Narmada Jillana Vasava Aadijatina Lokgeeto_Ek Abhyash
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/351331

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-vasavi-language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHqWPjee1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoATwbMRh5k

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio files are available in Vasavi language
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/vas

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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
Comments
Roxanne Hakim. 2000. Identity, Resettlement and Perceptions of Change: The Vasava Bhils of Gujarat, India. (Goldsmiths Anthropology Research Papers, 3.) London: Goldsmiths College, University of London. 21pp.

Roxanne Hakim. 2003. Changing Patterns of Aspects of Religion and Ritual in a Vasava Bhil Community Impacted by Involuntary Resettlement. The Eastern Anthropologist 56. 271-309.

Robert Gabriel Mac-Machado, (2022). Tribal Religion: Belief System, Practices and World-view among the Vasāvā Bhils. Christian World Imprints. 978-93-95457-32-3

The Vasave prayer guide. https://fbceugene.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Vasava-Prayer-Guide.pdf

Kumar, Dhananjay & Lobo, Lancy. (2019). The Social Structure of Vasava Tribe of South Gujarat.

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language
Comments
Vasava is written with Gujarati script

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

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
Gujarat

Size / Number of users

Number of users

187036
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

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=Vasava

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