Koya language

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Koya language is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken by the Koya tribal communities in central and southern India.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Koya language canonical 7

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Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
South-Central Dravidian language
language
belongsTo Indian tribal languages
country India
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnolinguisticGroup Koya
geographicDistribution central India tribal regions
southern India tribal regions
hasAlternativeName Koya
Koya Gondi
hasBranch South-Central Dravidian
hasLinguisticFeature postpositions instead of prepositions
rich case system
verb-final syntax
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakersRange hundreds of thousands of speakers
hasPhylum Dravidian
isDistinctFrom Gondi language
Telugu
surface form: Telugu language
ISO639-3Code kff
languageFamily Dravidian languages
languageStatus minority language in India
region Andhra Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

Telangana
relatedTo Gondi language
Telugu
surface form: Telugu language
scriptUsage sometimes written in Devanagari
uses Telugu script for writing
spokenBy Koya people
Koya tribal communities
spokenIn India
central India
South India
surface form: southern India
subfamily South-Central Dravidian
surface form: South-Central Dravidian languages
usedIn folk songs of Koya people
oral tradition of Koya people
rituals of Koya communities
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Devanagari script
Telugu script

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gondi closelyRelatedTo Koya language
Telugu script writingSystemFor Koya language
Southern Gondi closelyRelatedTo Koya language
Chenchu language closelyRelatedTo Koya language
Gondi language closelyRelatedTo Koya language
Gondi–Kui subgroup hasMember Koya language
Central Dravidian languages includes Koya language