Pengo language

Pengo[3] is a South-Central Dravidian language spoken in Odisha. Most speakers are fluent in Oriya.

Pengo
RegionIndia
Native speakers
350,000 (2000)[1]
Dravidian
  • South-Central
    • Gondi–Kui
      • Manda–Pengo
        • Pengo
Language codes
ISO 639-3peg
Glottologpeng1244[2]

Phonology
Consonants[4]
  Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal mnɳ ŋ 
Plosive voiceless ptʈck 
voiced bdɖɟɡ 
Fricative voiceless  s   h
voiced  z    
Approximant central ʋ  j  
lateral  l    
Tap  ɾɽ   

References
  1. Pengo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Pengo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. also Pengu; Hengo; Hengo Poraja; Jani; Muddali; Paraja; Pango; Pengua
  4. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003). The Dravidian languages (null ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 56. ISBN 9780511060373.


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