Kuvi

E173497

Kuvi is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kuvi tribal communities in parts of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh in India.

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Kuvi canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
South-Central Dravidian language
natural language
country India
endangermentStatus vulnerable
glottocode kuvi1243
hasAlternativeName Kuvi Kondh
Kuvinga
hasCulturalAssociation Dongria Kondh people
Jatapu people
hasEthnologueEntry Kuvi self-link
hasLinguisticFeature postpositions instead of prepositions
rich case system
verb-final syntax
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate tens of thousands
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasScriptStatus primarily oral language
hasWordOrder SOV
influencedBy Odia
Telugu
iso639-3Code kxv
languageFamily Dravidian languages
surface form: Dravidian
neighboringLanguage Odia
Telugu
region Eastern Ghats
northern Andhra Pradesh
Odisha (parts)
surface form: southern Odisha
relatedTo Kui language
spokenBy Kuvi people
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
India
Orissa
surface form: Odisha
spokenInDistrict Kalahandi district
Koraput district
Rayagada district
Visakhapatnam district
Vizianagaram district
subfamily South-Central Dravidian
subgroup Kui–Kuvi languages
usedByCommunity tribal communities in Andhra Pradesh
tribal communities in Odisha
usedInDomain home and community communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Odia script

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