Gadaba
| Gadaba | ||
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Spoken in |
India (regions: Andhra Pradesh , Orissa ) | |
| speaker | 10,000 | |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
dra (other Dravidian languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 |
gau |
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Gadaba (also Konekor-Gadaba , Poya and Ollari ) is a Dravidian language that is widespread in Central India . It belongs to the central Dravidian branch of this language family, so its closest relatives are Kolami , Naiki and Parji . Gadaba is spoken by 10,000 people in a contiguous area on the border between the states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa . The Gadaba speakers themselves refer to their language as koṇekor or mundli . They belong to the Adivasi tribal population. A part of the tribe speaks the unrelated Munda language Gotub-Gadaba , which is also often referred to as Gadaba and is not sufficiently differentiated from Konekor-Gadaba (for example in the Indian census).
Gabada, as the language of the illiterate tribal population, has no written tradition and therefore no standard variant. The first scientific description of the language dates back to 1957 (S. Bhattacharya: Ollari: A Dravidian Speech , Delhi 1957). In this work, as in some other publications, the language is referred to as Ollari. Ollari and Konekor Gadaba are now seen as two variants of the same language.
literature
- Peri Bhaskararao: Gadaba . In: Sanford B. Steever (Ed.): The Dravidian Languages . London: Routledge, 1998. pp. 328-355.