Chenchu language

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The Chenchu language is a Dravidian tribal language spoken by the Chenchu people of India, primarily in the forests of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

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Chenchu language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
language
tribal language
closelyRelatedTo Gondi language
Koya language
Telugu
surface form: Telugu language
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Chenchu
family Dravidian languages
surface form: Dravidian
hasAlternativeName Chenchu Dravidian
Chenchukuli
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
ISO639-3Code cde
languageFamilyBranch South-Central Dravidian
linguisticClassification Dravidian > South-Central > Chenchu subgroup
region South India
forests of Andhra Pradesh
forests of Telangana
scriptType abugida
spokenBy Chenchu
surface form: Chenchu people
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
India
Telangana
typologicalFeature SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
usedFor daily communication within Chenchu communities
oral tradition
writingSystem Telugu script

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Telugu script writingSystemFor Chenchu language