Lambadi

Lambani
	Banjari
Native to	India
Ethnicity	Lambaniies, Banjara, Gormati
Native speakers	4.2 million (2001 census)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Western Rajasthani–Marwari Rajasthani Lambani; ; ; ; ; ;
Official status
Official language in	No official status
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lmn
Glottolog	lamb1269[2]

Lambani or Goar-boali, also called Banjari, is a language spoken by the once nomadic Banjara people across India and it belongs to Indo-Aryan group of languages. The language does not have a native script.^[3]

The language is known by various other names, including Lamani, Lamadi, Lambani, Labhani, Lambara, Lavani, Lemadi, Lumadale, Labhani Muka and variants, Banjara, Banjari, Bangala, Banjori, Banjuri, Brinjari, and variants, Gohar-Herkeri, Goola, Gurmarti, Gormati, Kora, Singali, Sugali, Sukali, Tanda.

Regional dialects are divided between the Banjara of Maharashtra (written in Devanagari), Karnataka (written in the Kannada script) Tamil Nadu and Telangana (written in the Telugu script). Speakers are bilingual in either Telugu, Kannada, or Marathi.

References

↑ Lambadi at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lambani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ Naik, Dhansing B. (2000). The Art and Literature of Banjara Lambanis: A Socio-cultural Study. New Delhi: Abhinav Prakashan. p. 10. Retrieved 30 September 2014.

Bibliography

Boopathy, S. Investigation & report in: Chockalingam, K., Languages of Tamil Nadu: Lambadi: An Indo-Aryan Dialect (Census of India 1961. Tamil Nadu. Volume ix)
Trail, Ronald L. 1970. The Grammar of Lamani.

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[1] Lambadi at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lambani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[dhan-3] Naik, Dhansing B. (2000). The Art and Literature of Banjara Lambanis: A Socio-cultural Study. New Delhi: Abhinav Prakashan. p. 10. Retrieved 30 September 2014.