Southern Gondi

E112248

Southern Gondi is a major Dravidian language variety spoken by the Gondi people in central India, distinguished from other Gondi dialects by its own phonological and lexical features.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Southern Gondi canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
Gondi language variety
language
closelyRelatedTo Koya language
Kui language
Northern Gondi
country India
distinguishedFrom Northern Gondi
other Gondi dialects
ethnicity Gond
hasDialect Adilabad Gondi
Aheri Gondi
Chanda Gondi
Dorli Gondi
linked to: Dorla Gondi

Muria Gondi
linked to: Koya Gondi

Raj Gondi
linked to: Raj Gond
hasFeature distinct lexicon
distinct phonology
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Hindi
Marathi
linked to: Marathi language

Telugu
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasScriptDevelopment community-based orthographies
hasStatus minority language in India
hasWordOrder SOV
isEndangered true
iso639-3Code ggo
isPartOf Gondi language
languageFamily Dravidian
linked to: Dravidian languages
region central India
spokenBy Gondi people
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
Chhattisgarh
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Odisha
linked to: Orissa

Telangana
subfamily South-Central Dravidian
usedFor folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
usedIn rural communities
writingSystem Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Telugu script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Gondi hasDialects Southern Gondi
Gondi language hasDialects Southern Gondi