Toda in India

Speakers

1,560

Type

Location

Toda in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Toda in India

Size

1,560

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

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments

1.Emeneau, M. B. (1971). Toda songs. Oxford : Clarendon Press: https://archive.org/details/todasongs0000emen
2. Vasamalli, K. & Narayanan, K.. 2018). (Maarum Ulagil Maraiyaa Oligal Thodar Vaaimozhi Ilakkiyathin Oru Thoguppu. ‎ Sahitya Akademi.

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Comments
1. Some Toda videos available in archives: https://archive.org/search?query=TODA&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22
2. Toda Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPMbjH1yMnE

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Comments
1. Toda data collection recordings available at CIIL website: https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=TODA%20language&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

2. UCLA Phonetics Lab has Toda data recordings: http://phonetics.ucla.edu/appendix/languages/toda/toda.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
There are grammars, wordlists, ethnographic studies on Toda. Links are given below:
1. https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/toda1252
2. https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=10&query=TODA%20language&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC
3. https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?location=%2F&query=TODA+language&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc

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
Toda is written using Tamil 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

1560
Source
According to Census 2001 data provided in Ethnologue: https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tcx
Year
2001

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

Legal system

Completion