Kolami
| Kolami | ||
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Spoken in |
India (regions: Maharashtra , Telangana ) | |
| speaker | 122,000 | |
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| Official language in | - | |
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| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
dra |
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| ISO 639-3 |
kfb (northwest), nit (southwest) |
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Kolami is a Dravidian language common in Central India . She belongs to the central Dravidian branch of this language family, so her closest relatives are Gadaba , Naiki and Parji . According to the 2001 Indian census, the Kolami has around 122,000 speakers, 90,000 of them in Maharashtra state ( Yavatmal district ) and 32,000 in Telangana state ( Adilabad district ). Most Kolami speakers are bilingual in the respective regional majority language ( Marathi or Telugu ).
As the language of the illiterate Adivasi tribal population, Kolami has no written tradition and therefore no standard variant. The language is therefore divided into several local dialects. Kolami has been strongly influenced by the neighboring languages: 55% of the Kolami vocabulary is of Dravidian origin, 35% are loan words from Indo-Aryan languages (especially Marathi), and 10% are of unknown origin. Of the Dravidian words, 30% come from Telugu. The first records of the language were made in field research in 1937–1938;
Individual evidence
- ^ Census of India 2001: Distribution of the 100 Non-Scheduled Languages-India / States / Union Territories.
- ^ PS Subrahmanyam: Kolami , p. 326.
- ↑ MB Emeneau: Kolami language, a Dravidian language . Berkley: University of California Press, 1955.
literature
- PS Subrahmanyam: Kolami . In: Sanford B. Steever (Ed.): The Dravidian Languages . London: Routledge, 1998. pp. 301-327