Kolava
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Kolami (, Northwestern Kolami/Southeastern Kolami) is a tribal Central Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Telangana states of India. It falls under the Kolami–Naiki group of languages. It is the most widely spoken Central Dravidian language.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Kolava is referenced by 372 other articles, and connects out to Sauria Paharia, Koraga and Telugu.
Vinony files it under Agglutinative languages, Dravidian languages and Endangered languages of India.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Kolami
- Language.nativename
- ,
- Language.altname
- Kolāmi
- Language.imagealt
- ''
- Language.imagecaption
- '
- Language.states
- India
- Language.region
- Maharashtra, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh
- Language.ethnicity
- 239,583 Kolam (2011 census)
- Language.speakers
- 128,451, 54% of ethnic population
- Language.date
- 2011 census
- Language.familycolor
- Dravidian
- Language.fam2
- Central
- Language.fam3
- Kolami–Naiki
- Language.script
- Devanagari Telugu script Goykanadi
- Language.glotto
- nort2699
- Language.glottorefname
- Northwestern Kolami Kolam
- Language.ld1
- Northwestern Kolami
- Language.lc1
- kfb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Country
- India
Show 4 more facts
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- indigenous to
- Madhya Pradesh
- writing system
- Devanagari
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Classification
- Writing systems
- Numbers
- First ten numbers
- Nouns
- Verbs
- Present tense
- Characteristics
- Phonology
- Sample Text
- English
- Kolami
- Romanisation
- References
- Further reading
Kolami (, Northwestern Kolami/Southeastern Kolami) is a tribal Central Dravidian language spoken in Maharashtra and Telangana states of India. It falls under the Kolami–Naiki group of languages. It is the most widely spoken Central Dravidian language.
==Etymology==
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