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Gondi (Gōndi) is spoken by the Gondi people. It is a South-Central-Dravidian language, spoken by about two million people –
chiefly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattishgarh and in various adjoining areas
of neighbouring states. Although it is the language of the Gond people, only about half of them still speak it. Gondi has
a native script, which was lost for a long period of time, but got recently rediscovered. It has a rich folk literature, examples
of which are marriage songs and narrations. The language has a two-gender system, substantives being either masculine or nonmasculine.
Gondi departed from the parent Proto-Dravidian language by developing initial voiced stops (g, j, ḍ, d, b) and aspirated stops
(kh, gh, jh, dh, ph). Most of the Gondi dialects are still inadequately recorded and described. The more important dialects
are Dorla, Koya, Maria, Muria, and Raj Gond. Some basic phonologic features separate the northwestern dialects from the southeastern.
One is the treatment of the original initial s, which is preserved in northern and western Gondi, while farther to the south
and east it has been changed to h; in some other dialects it has been lost completely. Other dialectal variations in the Gondi
language are the alteration of initial r with initial l and a change of e and o to a. |
Names (more)[en] Gondi, Southern |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : ggoLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ggohttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:ggo More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: ggoFreebase ISO 639-3 : ggo GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |