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Gondi
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gondi language, Gōndi, Koytor
South-Central-Dravidian language spoken by the Gondi people
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 499 inbound references to Gondi, and connects out to Sauria Paharia, Koraga and Masaram Gondi.
Vinony files it under Agglutinative languages, Dravidian languages and Endangered languages of India.
Vinony links it to 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- India
- Region
- Gondwana
- Ethnicity
- Gondi
- Native speakers
- 2.98 million (2011 census)
- Language family
- Dravidian Southern South-Central Gondi languages Gondi
- Writing system
- Telugu script , Devanagari , Odia script , Gunjala script , Masaram script (See Gondi scripts )
- Iso 639 2
- gon
- Iso 639 3
- gon – inclusive code, Individual codes:, gno – Northern Gondi, esg – Aheri Gondi, wsg – Adilabad Gondi
- Glottolog
- nort3258
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Gondi
- Country
- India
- Image
- Shukla Gondi G.svg
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- writing system
- Masaram Gondi
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 2984453
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- different from
- House of Gondi
- indigenous to
- Telangana
- topic's main category
- Category:Gondi language
- P10369
- Northern Ireland
- entry in abbreviations table
- Go.
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Encyclopedic overview
Gondi (Gōṇḍī, IPA: [ɡoːɳɖiː]), natively known as Koitur (Kōī, Kōītōr, IPA: [koː.iː, koː.iː.t̪oːr]), is a South-Central Dravidian language, spoken by about three million Gondi people, chiefly in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and by small minorities in neighbouring states. Although it is the language of the Gond people, it is highly endangered, with only one fifth of Gonds speaking the language. Gondi has a rich folk literature, examples of which are wedding songs and narrations. Gondi people are ethnically related to the Telugus. Gondi is the largest minor Dravidian language by number of speakers.
Endangerment
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gondi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.