Konda language (Dravidian)
Konda, also known as Konda-Dora, is one of the Dravidian languages spoken in India. It is spoken by the scheduled tribe of the Konda-Dora who mostly live in the districts of Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, and East Godavari in Andhra Pradesh, Koraput district in Odisha and Assam. It is sometimes written in Telugu script and Odia Script. Some text books have been developed for schools up to 5th standard.[3]
| Konda | |
|---|---|
| కొండ | |
| Pronunciation | IPA: [Koṇḍa] |
| Region | India |
| Ethnicity | Konda-Dora |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2007)[1] |
Dravidian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kfc |
| Glottolog | kond1295[2] |
A unique writing system was developed by Sathupati Prasanna Sree for use with the language.[4]
Phonology
| Labial | Dental/Alveolar | Retroflex | Dorsal/Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ŋ | |
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | ʈ | k |
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɖ | ɡ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | s | (h) | ||
| voiced | z | ||||
| Tap | ɾ | ɽ | |||
| Trill | voiceless | r̥ | |||
| voiced | r | ||||
| Approximant | central | w | j | ||
| lateral | l | ɭ | |||
References
- Konda at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Konda-Dora". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- The dying tongues of Telangana and Andhra - Times of India
- "Konda-Dora". Omniglot. Retrieved 11 November 2017.
- Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-511-06037-3.
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