Zou in India

Speakers

26,545

Type

Location

Zou in India

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Zou in India

Size

26,545

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
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Comments
https://lai.ciil.org/items/cc07da9b-63d0-4b3d-8cc0-560cadcb08ef
https://lai.ciil.org/items/14661b42-e1bd-412c-b22d-a728e05899e9

Journals in Zou language

Zopatong
– A monthly news magazine published at Zomi Colony, Churachandpur, Manipur (India)

Khristian Tangkou
– A Christian journal published by the Zou Presbyterian Synod, Churachandpur, Manipur.

Gospel Tangkou
– A Christian journal published by the Manipur Evangelical Lutheran Church

Zokuomthawn
– A monthly news bulletin and online news journal of the Zou Sangnaupang Pawlpi, Delhi Branch

Zoheisa
– A monthly news bulletin and journal published by the Zou Sangnaupang Pawlpi, Shillong Branch.

Zo Tongdam
– Quarterly Journal on Zo Language & Linguistic

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Videos in Zou are available on different sites.
Jesus Movie- Zo language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5t95JTO0WM
Pitfalls of Zou language. Zou haamh pielhmangnaa ho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiCOlq39N3c
Zou Language Story Telling Program 001- Monkey and Fish Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOyXV27qMz8
Mathematics (splitting the middle term) in zou language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-WOsgNDvSg

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Some audio material is available in Zou language.
https://lai.ciil.org/items/c5019f36-4651-4e6d-b3a2-47b723a168d0
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/zom

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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
A Descriptive Grammar of Zou
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/jspui/handle/10603/255217

https://zougam.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/the-zo-people/

English-Zou Digital glossary
https://glosbe.com/en/zom

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
Zou is mostly written in Latin script. There is another script for Zou known as Zoulai. It was created by M. Siahzathang of Churachandpur, Manipur in 1952.

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
Manipur

Size / Number of users

Number of users

26545
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

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

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