Southern Gondi

E112248

Southern Gondi is a major Dravidian language variety spoken by the Gondi people in central India, distinguished from other Gondi dialects by its own phonological and lexical features.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Gondi canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
Gondi language variety
language
closelyRelatedTo Koya language
Kui language
Northern Gondi
country India
distinguishedFrom Northern Gondi
other Gondi dialects
ethnicity Gond
hasDialect Adilabad Gondi
Aheri Gondi
Chanda Gondi
Dorla Gondi
surface form: Dorli Gondi

Koya Gondi
surface form: Muria Gondi

Raj Gond
surface form: Raj Gondi
hasFeature distinct lexicon
distinct phonology
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Hindi
Marathi language
surface form: Marathi

Telugu
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasScriptDevelopment community-based orthographies
hasStatus minority language in India
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndangered true
iso639-3Code ggo
isPartOf Gondi language
languageFamily Dravidian languages
surface form: Dravidian
region central India
spokenBy Gondi people
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Orissa
surface form: Odisha

Telangana
subfamily South-Central Dravidian
usedFor folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
usedIn rural communities
writingSystem Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Telugu script

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

Gondi hasDialects Southern Gondi
Gondi language hasDialects Southern Gondi