Lamani
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India ( Telangana , Maharashtra , Karnataka ) | |
| speaker | 4.9 million | |
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Lamani, Lambadi or Banjari is a language from the group of Indo-Aryan languages . It is spoken by the nomadic Banjara people in the Deccan region in southern India . The Banjara originally immigrated from Rajasthan in northwest India . The Lamani belongs to the Rajasthani dialect group, which in turn can be understood as a variety of Hindi .
The Lamani speakers live in a large area, mainly in the states of Telangana , Maharashtra and Karnataka . In the 2011 Indian census, 3.3 million people across the country gave “Lamani”, “Lambadi” or “Labani” as their mother tongue and a further 1.6 million “Banjari”. In the official statistics, these people are subsumed under the number of Hindi speakers. Around two million Lamani / Banjari speakers live in Telangana, one and a half million in Maharashtra, and one million in Karnataka.
literature
- Ronald L. Trail: A grammar of Lamani. Norman (Oklahoma): Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1970. Digitized
Web links
- Lambadi , in: Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig (Eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 21st ed. Dallas, Texas: SIL International, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colin P. Masica: The Indo-Aryan Languages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 22.
- ^ Census of India 2011: Data on Language and Mother Tongue. Statement 1. Abstract of Speakers' Strength of Languages and Mother Tongues - 2011.
- ↑ Calculated for the districts that have formed the state of Telangana since 2014 according to the Census of India 2011: C-16 Population By Mother Tongue. Andhra Pradesh.
- ↑ Census of India 2011: C-16 Population By Mother Tongue. Maharashtra.
- ↑ Census of India 2011: C-16 Population By Mother Tongue. Karnataka.