Badaga in India

Speakers

133,550

Type

Location

Badaga in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Badaga in India

Size

133,550

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
Southern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

Digital
No

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are movies in Badaga. And some documentary videos in given link: https://badaga.co/2021/04/07/badaga-videos/
https://archive.org/details/jesus-film-badaga-language
https://archive.org/details/ibaduga
https://archive.org/search?query=Badaga&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
There are Badaga language data recordings in the following sources:
1. https://www.elararchive.org/dk0590/
2. http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/Language/BFQ/bfq.html

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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
Sources:
R. Balakrishnan. 1999. Badaga: A Dravidian Language. 1st edn. Annamalai: Annamalai University. xii+370pp.
Paul Hockings. 1988. Counsel from the ancients: A study of Badaga proverbs, prayers, omens and curses. Berlin: Mouton. xii+796pp.
Paul Hockings and Christiane Pilot-Raichoor. 1992. A Badaga-English Dictionary. (Trends in Linguistics: Documentation, 8.) Berlin, New York: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. xxii+865pp.
Christiane Pilot-Raichoor. 1997. Badaga and its relations with neighbouring languages. In Paul Hockings (ed.), Blue mountains revisited: cultural studies on the Nilgiri Hills, 136-147. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Paul Hockings. 1989. The Badagas. In Paul Hockings (ed.), Blue mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region, 206-231. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
1. https://badaga.co/the-story-of-the-badagas-paame-by-bala
2. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/bada1257

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
Badaga is written in Kannada, Latin and Tamil script.
Later Yogesh of Kadasoley created Badaga alphabets in 1978.

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

133550
Source
Census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)

Generational use

Educational attainment

Occupational qualifications

Elementary occupations
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Craft and related trades workers
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Services and sales workers
Clerical support workers
Technicians and associate professionals
Professionals
Managers

Language competence

Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains

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

  • 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

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