Surjapuri in India

Speakers

2,256,228

Type

Location

Surjapuri in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Surjapuri in India

Size

2,256,228

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
Northern India

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Comments
There are videos of songs, language learning lectures, etc in Youtube. Some links are givcen below:
1. SURJAPURI SONG,,,,DIL BHORE GEL TOK DEKHE GE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2TerMk63w
2. Surjapuri Language Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia Bihar सुरजापुरी भाषा मुदस्सीर आलमेर साथ - एपिसोड 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZWdXAHW62g&list=PLBm9Zjq81zVPd2WSuHk4QIKvdZ5YKgi-U&index=3
3. Surjapuri ! Introduction in Surjpuri Language by Adil Reza, Tezpur University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqIlKtvAFvo&list=PLBm9Zjq81zVPd2WSuHk4QIKvdZ5YKgi-U&index=7

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Audio

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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
1. Perumal Samy, P. (2021). A Linguistic Description of Surjapuri Mother Tongue Spoken in Bihar State
2. Lahiri, B. (2018). Classifiers in surjapuri. Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 2(1), 27-37.
3. Alam, S. (2011). Word Formation in Surjapuri. Language in India, 11(3).
4. Alam. Md. Shahzad. (2011a). Case and Case-like Postposition in Surjapuri. Language in India 11:1,212-226. http://www.languageinindia.com/jan2011/surajpurifinal.pdf
5. (2014). Surjapuri-Bengali Prelimnary Glossary. North Bengal Alliance for Scripture Engagement. https://www.webonary.org/surjapuri/download/

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
Surjapuri is written using Bengali 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
Comments
Surjapuri is a language spoken in India, in eastern part of Bihar, mainly in the districts of Katihar, Kishanganj and Purnia and also in some parts of West Bengal (Lahiri 2018).

Reference: Lahiri, B. (2018). Classifiers in surjapuri. Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 2(1), 27-37.

Size / Number of users

Number of users

2256228
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

Economic dimension

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

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