South-Central Dravidian

E32402
Dravidian subgroup language family branch

South-Central Dravidian is a branch of the Dravidian language family that includes languages such as Telugu and related tongues spoken primarily in south-central India.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form Occurrences
South-Central Dravidian languages 3
Telugu subgroup 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian subgroup ⓘ
language family branch ⓘ
geographicDistribution Andhra Pradesh ⓘ
Chhattisgarh ⓘ
Karnataka ⓘ
Maharashtra ⓘ
Orissa ⓘ
surface form: Odisha

Telangana ⓘ
south-central India ⓘ
hasAlternativeName South-Central Dravidian ⓘ
surface form: South-Central Dravidian languages
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length ⓘ
retroflex consonants ⓘ
hasProtoLanguage Proto-South-Central Dravidian ⓘ
hasSubgroup Gondi–Kui subgroup ⓘ
Kolami–Naiki subgroup ⓘ
Manda–Pengo subgroup ⓘ
South-Central Dravidian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Telugu subgroup
hasWritingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ
surface form: Devanagari

Latin script ⓘ
Odia script ⓘ
Telugu script ⓘ
includesLanguage Chenchu ⓘ
Gondi ⓘ
Kolami ⓘ
Konda-Dora ⓘ
Koya ⓘ
Kui ⓘ
Kuvi ⓘ
Manda ⓘ
Naiki ⓘ
Pengo ⓘ
Telugu ⓘ
languageFamily Dravidian languages ⓘ
surface form: Dravidian
majorLanguage Telugu ⓘ
partOf Dravidian languages ⓘ
surface form: Dravidian language family
recognizedIn comparative Dravidian linguistics ⓘ
sharesFeatureWith Central Dravidian languages ⓘ
Southern Dravidian ⓘ
surface form: South Dravidian languages
spokenBy Dravidian peoples ⓘ
spokenIn India ⓘ
studiedBy historical linguists ⓘ
subclassOf South Dravidian languages ⓘ
typologicalFeature SOV word order ⓘ
agglutinative morphology ⓘ
postpositions ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

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

South-Central Dravidian → hasAlternativeName → South-Central Dravidian ⓘ
this entity surface form: South-Central Dravidian languages
South-Central Dravidian → hasSubgroup → South-Central Dravidian self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Telugu subgroup
Dravidian languages → subfamily → South-Central Dravidian ⓘ
this entity surface form: South-Central Dravidian languages
Gondi → subfamily → South-Central Dravidian ⓘ
Rayalaseema Telugu → subfamily → South-Central Dravidian ⓘ
this entity surface form: South-Central Dravidian languages
Telugu → subfamily → South-Central Dravidian ⓘ