Gondi–Kui languages

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The Gondi–Kui languages are a branch of the Dravidian language family spoken primarily by tribal communities in central and eastern India, including languages such as Gondi and Kui.

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Gondi–Kui languages canonical 1

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf language family branch
geographicDistribution Deccan plateau region NERFINISHED
Eastern Ghats region NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Gondi–Kui branch NERFINISHED
Gondi–Kui group NERFINISHED
hasHistoricalOrigin Proto-Dravidian language
hasISOClassification part of ISO 639-3 codes for individual member languages
hasLinguisticFeature SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
hasMember Gondi language NERFINISHED
Koya language NERFINISHED
Kui language NERFINISHED
Kuvi language NERFINISHED
Manda language NERFINISHED
Pengo language NERFINISHED
hasStatus many member languages are endangered
hasSubgroup Gondi group NERFINISHED
Kui–Kuvi group NERFINISHED
hasWritingSystem Devanagari script (for some languages)
Latin script (for some languages)
Odia script (for some languages)
Telugu script (for some languages) NERFINISHED
languageFamilyBranchOf Dravidian languages NERFINISHED
partOf Dravidian language family NERFINISHED
relatedTo North Dravidian languages NERFINISHED
South Dravidian languages NERFINISHED
spokenBy Gondi people NERFINISHED
Kui people NERFINISHED
tribal communities in India
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh NERFINISHED
Bihar NERFINISHED
Chhattisgarh NERFINISHED
India
Jharkhand NERFINISHED
Madhya Pradesh NERFINISHED
Maharashtra NERFINISHED
Odisha NERFINISHED
Telangana NERFINISHED
central India
eastern India NERFINISHED
studiedIn Dravidian linguistics
subclassOf South-Central Dravidian languages NERFINISHED
timeDepth attested in modern period through colonial and post-colonial linguistic surveys
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
rituals and religious practices

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Parji subgroup Gondi–Kui languages