Korku language

E734615

Korku language is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily by the Korku tribal communities in central India, especially in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

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Label Occurrences
Korku language canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
Munda language
language
belongsToBranch North Munda NERFINISHED
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Korku NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Korki NERFINISHED
Korkus
Kurku NERFINISHED
hasCaseMarking postpositional
hasDialects regional varieties within Madhya Pradesh
regional varieties within Maharashtra
hasGlottocode kork1249
hasLexicalBorrowingFrom Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
hasLinguisticFeature noun classifiers absent
postpositions instead of prepositions
rich system of verb inflection
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasScriptUsage primarily written in Devanagari
hasSociolinguisticSituation language shift towards Hindi observed
many speakers bilingual in Hindi
hasWordOrder SOV
influencedBy Hindi NERFINISHED
Marathi NERFINISHED
isMinorityLanguageIn Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED
Maharashtra NERFINISHED
iso639-3Code kfq
languageFamily Austroasiatic NERFINISHED
macrolanguageOf no recognized distinct daughter languages
neighboringLanguage Hindi NERFINISHED
Marathi NERFINISHED
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Hinduism NERFINISHED
indigenous tribal religions
region central India
spokenBy Korku people NERFINISHED
spokenIn India
Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED
Maharashtra NERFINISHED
subfamily Munda NERFINISHED
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
usedInEducation limited use in primary education in some areas
writingSystem Devanagari script NERFINISHED

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North Munda languages includesLanguage Korku language