Gondi

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Gondi is a Dravidian language spoken primarily by the Gondi people in central India, especially across parts of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and neighboring regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gondi canonical 22

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Dravidian language
language
natural language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Koya language
Kui language
Kuvi language
linked to: Kui language
country India
ethnicGroup Gondi people
linked to: Gonds
family Dravidian
linked to: Dravidian languages
hasCaseSystem postpositional case markers
hasDialects Adilabad Gondi
Dorla Gondi
Koya Gondi
Muria Gondi
linked to: Dorla Gondi

Northern Gondi
linked to: Gonds

Southern Gondi
hasISO639-2Code gon
hasISO639-3Code gon
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature dravidian-type agglutinative morphology
retroflex consonants
languageFamily Dravidian languages
languageStatus vulnerable
region Bastar region
Deccan
linked to: Deccan Plateau

Eastern Madhya Pradesh
linked to: Central India

Eastern Maharashtra
linked to: Vidarbha region
scriptDevelopedBy Munshi Mangal Singh Masaram
spokenIn Andhra Pradesh
Central India
Chhattisgarh
India
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Odisha
linked to: Orissa

Telangana
Uttar Pradesh
subfamily South-Central Dravidian
usedBy Gondi tribal communities
usedIn folk songs
oral tradition
storytelling
writingSystem Devanagari
linked to: Devanagari script

Gondi script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Telugu script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (22)

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

Balaghat languageSpoken Gondi
gon hasAlternativeName Gondi
Seoni hasRegionalLanguage Gondi
Bastar region language Gondi
Kui hasCloseRelation Gondi
Chenchu closelyRelatedTo Gondi
Chandrapur district hasSpokenLanguage Gondi
subject linked to: Chandrapur
Gondia district language Gondi
subject linked to: Gondia
Jagdalpur localLanguage Gondi