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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)[ar] الجندي[az] qondi dili [bn] গোন্ডি [bs] gondi [br] Gondeg [bg] гонди [ca] gondi [cs] góndština [da] gondi [de] Gondi [el] Γκόντι [en] Gondi language [eo] Gonda lingvo [et] gondi [fa] گوندی [fi] Gondin kieli [fr] Gondî [gu] ગોંડી [he] גונדי [hi] गाँडी [hr] gondi [hu] gondi [id] Gondi [is] gondí [it] gondi [ja] ゴーンディー語 [kn] ಗೊಂಡಿ [ks] گوندی [ko] 곤디어 [lo] ກອນດີ [la] Lingua Gondvanensis [lv] gondu valodas [lt] gondi [ml] ഗോണ്ഡി [mr] गाँडी [mk] гонди [mt] Gondi [ms] Bahasa Gondi [nl] Gondi [nn] gondi [nb] gondi [or] ଗୋଣ୍ଡି [pl] Język gondi [pt] Língua gondi [rm] gondi [ro] gondi [ru] Гонди [sk] góndčina [sl] gondi [es] gondi [sr] Гонди [sv] Gond [ta] கோண்டி மொழி [te] గోండి [th] กอนดิ [tr] Gondi [uk] гонді [vi] Tiếng Gondi |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-2B : gonISO 639-2T : gon ISO 639-3 : gon Linked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gonhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:gon http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/gon More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: gonFreebase ISO 639-3 : gon GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |