Parji

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Parji is a modern Dravidian language spoken in parts of central India, descended from the reconstructed ancestral language Proto-Dravidian.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Parji canonical 1
Parji-Dhurwa 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
modern language
ancestor Proto-Dravidian
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsToMacroArea South Asia
country India
ethnicGroup Dhurwa people
family Dravidian
hasAlternativeName Dhurwa
Parji
surface form: Parji-Dhurwa
hasCaseSystem yes
hasContactWith Chhattisgarhi
Hindi
Odia
hasGenderDistinction natural gender
hasLiteraryTradition limited
hasLoanwordsFrom Indo-Aryan languages
hasNounPostpositions yes
hasNumberDistinction singular and plural
hasOralTradition yes
hasPhonemicContrast retroflex vs dental consonants
voiced vs voiceless stops
hasScriptStandardization low
hasTenseDistinction non-past
past
hasVerbalSuffixes yes
isEndangered yes
isLessUsedIn administration
formal education
isMinorityLanguageIn India
ISO639-3 pci
isSpokenBy several tens of thousands of speakers
isTaughtInSchools rarely
isUsedIn community functions
home domain
languageStatus vulnerable
morphologicalType agglutinative language
region central India
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
Orissa
surface form: Odisha
subfamily South-Central Dravidian
surface form: South-Central Dravidian languages
subgroup Gondi–Kui languages
Parji–Gadaba languages
writingSystem Devanagari script
surface form: Devanagari

Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Odia script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Parji hasAlternativeName Parji
this entity surface form: Parji-Dhurwa