Kolami

E173499

Kolami is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Kolam tribal communities in central India, especially in parts of Maharashtra and Telangana.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kolami language 4
Kolami canonical 3
Northwestern Kolami 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
language
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsToBranch Kolami–Naiki subgroup
closelyRelatedTo Naiki
Ollari
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Kolam
hasAlternativeName Kolamboli
Kolami language
linked to: Kolami
hasCaseMarking postpositions
hasDialects Northwestern Kolami
linked to: Kolami

Southeastern Kolami
linked to: Kolami
hasGrammaticalCategory aspect
case
gender
mood
number
tense
hasLinguisticFeature derivational morphology on verbs
postposed clausal subordinators
rich system of verbal suffixes
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
retroflex consonants
influencedBy Marathi
linked to: Marathi language

Telugu
isMinorityLanguageIn Maharashtra
Telangana
iso639-3Code kfb
languageFamily Dravidian
morphologicalType agglutinative
region central India
spokenBy Kolam people
Kolam tribal communities
spokenIn India
Maharashtra
Telangana
subclassOf Central Dravidian languages
usedAlongside Marathi
linked to: Marathi language

Telugu
usedFor daily communication in Kolam communities
folk songs
oral tradition
writingSystem Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Telugu script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

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

Proto-Dravidian ancestorOf Kolami
Gondi language closelyRelatedTo Kolami language
linked to: Kolami
Kolami hasDialects Northwestern Kolami
linked to: Kolami
Kolami hasDialects Southeastern Kolami
linked to: Kolami
Kolami hasAlternativeName Kolami language
linked to: Kolami
Kolami–Naiki subgroup hasMember Kolami language
linked to: Kolami
Central Dravidian languages includes Kolami language
linked to: Kolami