Gondi
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India (regions: Maharashtra , Madhya Pradesh , Chhattisgarh , Telangana , Orissa ) | |
| speaker | 3 million | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
gon |
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gon (macro language) Individual languages included:
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Gondi ( Gonḍi ) is a central Dravidian language common in Central India . It is spoken by about 3 million members of the Adivasi people of the Gond . The number of Gondi speakers is far below the number of the actual Gond population, as many members of this people speak a Munda language or have adopted one of the neighboring Indo-Aryan languages ( Hindi , Marathi , Chhattisgarhi ) or Telugu . The distribution area of the Gondi is distributed over several linguistic islands in the states of Maharashtra (in the east), Madhya Pradesh (southeast), Chhattisgarh (west and south), Telangana and Orissa . Due to the large, highly fragmented distribution area, Gondi is divided into numerous dialects , which are only partially understandable among each other and can be combined into two groups, a northern and a southern.
Gondi does not have a noteworthy written tradition, but has a rich orally transmitted folk literature. No written evidence existed until the middle of the 19th century. A major obstacle in the development of a written language is still the lack of a standard variant. Depending on the area, the Devanagari or Telugu script is used. In fact, Gondi is rarely written; instead, literate people use one of the larger neighboring languages.
literature
- Sanford B. Steever: Gonḍi . In: Sanford B. Steever (Ed.): The Dravidian Languages . Routledge, London 1998, pp. 270-297
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 2,984,453 speakers according to the 2011 Indian Census (PDF)