Pengo

E173498

Pengo is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Pengo people in parts of central India, especially in Odisha and neighboring regions.

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Pengo canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Gondi language
Kui language
Kuvi language
country India
ethnicGroupAssociated Pengo people
hasAlternativeName Penggo
Pengu
hasLinguisticTypology agglutinative language
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
postpositions
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
hasRegister informal speech
ritual speech
hasWordOrder SOV
influencedBy Odia language
linked to: Odia
ISO639-3 peg
languageEndangerment threatened by language shift to Odia
languageFamily Dravidian
linked to: Dravidian languages
linguisticArea Koraput region of Odisha
linked to: Koraput district

Malkangiri region of Odisha
minorityLanguageIn Odisha
linked to: Orissa
region central India
eastern India
script Devanagari script
Odia script
spokenBy Pengo people
spokenIn Chhattisgarh
India
Odisha
linked to: Orissa
status vulnerable language
subfamily Gondi–Kui group
South-Central Dravidian languages
usedFor oral communication
usedInDomain community life
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