Kokni

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Kokni is an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Kokni tribal community in parts of western India, including Maharashtra and neighboring regions.

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Kokni canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Konkani NERFINISHED
Marathi NERFINISHED
country India
domainOfUse community functions
home
local markets
endangermentCause shift to dominant regional languages
ethnicAssociation Scheduled Tribe communities in Maharashtra
family Indo-European languages
geographicDistribution Dhule district, Maharashtra NERFINISHED
Nandurbar district, Maharashtra NERFINISHED
Nashik district, Maharashtra NERFINISHED
parts of northern Konkan
hasAlternativeName Kokni (tribal language) NERFINISHED
Kokni of Khandesh NERFINISHED
Kokni of Nashik NERFINISHED
Kokni-Koli NERFINISHED
hasDialectContinuumWith neighboring Marathi varieties
hasFeature case marking
grammatical gender
postpositions
retroflex consonants
iso639-3Code kex
languageBranch Indo-Aryan NERFINISHED
languageShiftTowards Hindi
Marathi NERFINISHED
lexicalBorrowingFrom Hindi
Marathi NERFINISHED
linguisticArea Marathi–Konkani group NERFINISHED
morphology inflectional
phonologicalInfluenceFrom Konkani NERFINISHED
Marathi NERFINISHED
region western India
script Devanagari NERFINISHED
spokenBy Kokni people NERFINISHED
Kokni tribal community NERFINISHED
spokenIn Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu NERFINISHED
Gujarat NERFINISHED
Maharashtra NERFINISHED
status endangered language
minority language
subfamily Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
typology SOV word order
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
writingSystemUsage primarily oral with limited written use

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